Fact Check: Conspiracy theory claims Covid-19 vaccine caused new strain in UK
India Today Anti Fake News War Room has found that UK approved Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Dec 2, and started the vaccination process on Dec 8. The new Covid variant emerged in the UK in Sept 2020, suggesting it has no connection with the vaccine.
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UPDATED: January 19, 2021 23:17 IST
Some social media users have started rumours and conspiracy theories around Covid-19 vaccination. (Representational image). (Photo: AFP)
Several deaths and side-effects suspected to be linked to the Covid-19 vaccination drive have been reported from different countries. At the same time, more and more people are being infected with a new strain of coronavirus that emerged in the United Kingdom.
Bill Gates, vaccines and population control make for infectious conspiracy theory
Social media users are sharing an old newspaper article that highlights Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’s plan to depopulate the world through forced vaccination.
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The Facebook post shows an old newspaper article to substantiate the claim.
Amid reports of several deaths in Norway after administration of Covid-19 vaccine, a viral Facebook message claims that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wants to reduce the world population through forced vaccination. The Facebook post shows an old newspaper article to substantiate the claim.
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imageof a 2011 edition of Ireland-based newspaper “
The Sovereign Independent”, whose front page headline says, “Depopulation Through Forced Vaccination: The Zero Carbon Solution”.
Fact Check: No, Modi govt is not introducing one nation, one power tariff law
A message circulating on social media claims that India may be heading towards a uniform power tariff policy. India Today Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found the claim to be misleading.
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[REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE] File photo of high-tension power lines (Photo Credits: Reuters)
Is India headed towards a uniform power tariff policy? That is what a message circulating on social media claims. The message in Bengali translates to, Power tariffs will be uniform throughout the country as the Modi government is introducing one nation, one tariff law.
Fact Check: Viral post claiming death of 17 female docs in Karnataka bus crash is misleading
Fact Check: Viral post claiming death of 17 female docs in Karnataka bus crash is misleading
Social media users have claimed that as many as 17 female professors from JJM Medical College in Karnataka’s Davangere district who were on a trip to Goa died in a fatal bus mishap.
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UPDATED: January 18, 2021 18:40 IST
A group of 17 former students of St Paul’s Convent in Davanagere, Karnataka, were on a trip to Goa when their vehicle collided with a truck on Friday, January 15.
A viral post on social media says 17 female professors from a Karnataka medical college succumbed to a fatal bus mishap on the Bengaluru-Pune highway. The post shared three pictures one of the mangled remains of a bus and two group photos with the claim.
Fact Check: No, this is not a rehearsal by protesting farmers for January 26 tractor rally
The video in question is from a charity event held in Germany in December 2020 and has been circulating on social media even before farmers announced the tractor rally.
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AFWA has found that the video along with the claim is misleading.
Thousands of farmers protesting against the three new agriculture laws had earlier this month announced that they ll hold a tractor rally on January 26, India s Republic Day, to further intensify the agitation. Some of the farmers also took part in tractor rallies on expressways surrounding Delhi on January 7, calling it a rehearsal ahead of the main event.