Fact Check: Old image of animal rights campaign viral with misleading claims
A picture has gone viral on social media with the claim that it shows a woman portraying a bird injured by the flying kites during Makar Sankranti.
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The image going viral on social media.
An image of a woman in a fairy-like white dress, wings, and bloodstains around her neck with a few kites hanging around her has gone viral on social media. It is being said that she is protesting against kite flying during Makar Sankranti.
Makar Sankranti is a Hindu festival dedicated to the Sun god and
Fact Check: This is not an Australian astronaut jumping from spaceship to Earth
Fact Check: This is not an Australian astronaut jumping from spaceship to Earth
A video along with the claim that it shows an Australian astronaut jumping to Earth from a spaceship in four minutes is circulating on social media. However, AFWA has found the claim to be misleading
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UPDATED: January 14, 2021 12:41 IST
The video in question shows a skydiver jumping from the stratosphere as part of Red Bull Stratos mission and not an astronaut jumping from spaceship to Earth.
A video is circulating on social media along with the claim that it shows an Australian astronaut jumping to Earth from a spaceship in four minutes.
Fact Check: No board exams in Bengal this year? Mamata’s edited clip goes viral
According to a clip going viral on Facebook, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has announced that students of classes 10 and 12 do not have to appear for state board exams in 2021 and they’ll be promoted automatically due to the pandemic.
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While Mamata Banerjee had made a wrong statement earlier, she clarified it later.
A short clip of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has gone viral where she can be heard announcing in Bengali that students of classes 10 and 12 do not have to appear for state board exams in 2021 and they’ll be promoted automatically due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Fact Check: Conspiracy theory on bird flu linking bird deaths to Jio 5G trial goes viral
Several social media users have alleged that the recent deaths of birds reported from across the country are the result of 5G tests conducted by Reliance Jio and not a bird flu outbreak.
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Amid the bird flu scare in the country, a viral message on social media claims that birds are actually dying due to 5G tests conducted by Reliance Jio and people are being misled to believe that bird flu is spreading in India.
Several Twitter and Facebook users have posted a message in Hindi which translates to, Birds are dying due to Jio 5G testing in India and people are being fed lies that bird flu is spreading.
Fact Check: Two-year-old clip of man blackening Hindi text on signboard linked to farmers’ stir
Fact Check: Two-year-old clip of man blackening Hindi text on signboard linked to farmers’ stir
A video of a turbaned man blackening the Hindi text on a signboard is circulating on social media with the claim that it is from Punjab, and the real agenda of farmers’ protest is to oppose Hindi and Hindus.
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UPDATED: January 11, 2021 15:12 IST
The signboard shows the text “NORTH ZONE CULTURAL CENTRE” written in English and Punjabi too. But the man is seen putting black paint on the Hindi text only.