Amid escalating Israel-Gaza tensions, a set of three images featuring military vehicles is shared on social media with a claim that the Turkish force coming to Gaza.
Fact Check: Viral clipping of HT newspaper claiming PM Modi Missing is fake
Fact Check: Viral clipping of HT newspaper claiming PM Modi Missing is fake
Social media platform was flooded with #ModiMissing asking where is the prime minister . And the fake news machinery was not far behind when a clipping of English daily newspaper Hindustan Times frontpage clipping with a classified advertisement of PM Modi being missing started doing rounds on the internet.
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File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo credit: PTI)
As India is fighting a tough battle against Covid-19 during the second wave, political war between the government and the Opposition is also on. While attacking the government over its insufficient efforts to contain the spread and save lives, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Twitter saying that along with vaccine, oxygen and medicines, PM is also missing .
Fact Check: Conspiracy theory falsely accuses pharma company behind Covid outbreak and vaccine
A viral post on social media claims that British pharmaceutical company GSK owns the Wuhan lab in which Covid-19 was created as well as Pfizer, which produced the Covid-19 vaccine.
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UPDATED: May 13, 2021 14:43 IST
The viral post also hints at the involvement of billionaires George Soros and Bill Gates in the conspiracy.
A Facebook post sniffs a conspiracy as it claims to find a common thread between the financiers of the Chinese laboratory where coronavirus first emerged and the vaccine manufacturer.
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Fact Check: Oil pipeline blast in Egypt passed off as explosion in Israel targetting Jews Chayan Kundu
Hostilities between Israel and Hamas
have escalated, resulting in aerial bombings that have already killed dozens on both sides in the last few days. Amid this, a video of a huge fire and burning cars has gone viral with the claim that this is a recent explosion in Israel that has killed 650 Jews.
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Facebook users have posted the video with the caption, A big explosion happened in Israel where near about 650 jewish people killed
India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found the viral claim to be misleading. Though Israel and Hamas are engaged in fierce clashes, no explosion of this scale has been reported from Israel. The video is from last year, when a massive explosion in an oil pipeline in Cairo, Egypt, gutted nearly 20 cars and injured many.
In the midst of the deadly second wave of Covid-19, a video of an oximeter displaying the "oxygen level" of a sketch pen is making the rounds on social media.