Recently on various WhatsApp groups a set of pictures are being shared: NARRATIVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA These pictures made using coloured pencils on black sheets of paper by Shashikant Dhotre’s from Sholapur, which look life-like and are very inspiring to people. Over the years, these pictures and the man who has painted them, has become […]
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Has PUBG been banned by Bombay High Court? A fake notice claiming that PUBG mobile game has been banned in India is doing the rounds on social media. The fake news spread after a legal notice started doing rounds on Facebook and now has been forwarded on WhatsApp as well. The false legal notice claims […]
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2018 before saying goodbye, took along with it, a versatile and non-conventional actor from our midst. The New Year 2019 commenced with sad news for the fans of veteran Bollywood actor Kader Khan, who passed away on 31st December 2018. Born in Kabul, Kader Khan made his acting debut in 1973 with Rajesh Khanna’s Daag […]
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Recently, one of our readers A.K.Shukla shared with us an image of a SMS message he had received recently: SMS MESSAGE: “Dear A.K.Shukla, Incometax_Dept requires you to click the link below to submit a formal request for the remittance of your unclaimed overdue tax refund of rs.19,550. http://cdv22.com/Refund w to submit aformal request for the […]
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2018 would become synonymous with controversy. This year the news cycle of controversial stories reached its ‘Crescendo’. We selected a list of articles which we felt highlighted the tone of the year 2018, in terms of controversy they generated in news cycle and social media. These were of course nearly all political in nature. As […]
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2018 was an eventful year for all of us. Fact Crescendo started its journey, we became verified signatory of the IFCN code of principles; Facebook & WhatsApp became a part of the problem and then slowly started striving to become responsible for a solution, fact checking slowly gained traction & started becoming a norm in […]
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Recently on various WhatsApp groups a Guwahatiplus.com article is being shared wherein a young girls Facebook photo has been shared on WhatsApp groups for soliciting clients in Guwahati, Assam. NARRATIVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA This message brings out awareness to the misuse of social media for propagating false news & scams. Guwahatiplus.com published an article about […]
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Recently on various WhatsApp groups a video published by The News Minute is being shared: NARRATIVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA This video is being shared and slowly becoming viral on WhatsApp groups and social media due to a simple fact that seeing spry Swami Sivananda is very inspiring to people. Various people & news media organisations […]
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Recently on various WhatsApp groups photo-shopped images displaying headlines from ABP News, which display false comments allegedly by Rahul Gandhi, are being shared. Translation of Hindi text: 1st Breaking News Headline: “My ancestors were Muslims, I’m Muslim – Rahul Gandhi” 2nd Breaking News Headline: “Moment we make our own government, we would give Pakistan an […]
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Recently on various WhatsApp groups, a bunch of pictures are being shared. It shows repair work on metro line. The false WhatsApp message advises user to avoid MG Road due to Metro Pillar inter-locking joint being dislodged. WhatsApp Text: “Metro pillar in MG road inter locking joint dislodged , better avoid the road and metro […]
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Recently on various WhatsApp groups, a video is being shared. It shows a Congress supporters taking out a celebration rally in Rajasthan post election results. The man making the video is saying loudly: “कांग्रेस की रैली और कैसे पाकिस्तान का झंडा लहराया जा रहा है, गौर से देखिये आप | गौर से देखिये इस रैली […]
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Recently on various Twitter handles, a misleading tweet is being shared from twitter handle ‘@Navjot_S_Si’: The tweet says- “Today I have been invited by the Government of Pakistan On the occasion of opening the #KartarpurCorridor. I am grateful 2Prime Minister Imran khan & Army chief. All Sikh community is thankful 2Pakistan. Pakistan is my second […]
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Recently on various Twitter handles, a fake image is being shared. It shows a framed picture of ‘Aurangzeb’ behind Rahul Gandhi, while he was filing the nomination for the President of Congress, sitting along with senior congress leaders, on 4th December at All India Congress Committee (AICC) HQ, in New Delhi. NARRATIVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA […]
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Recently on various Twitter handles, a fake image is being shared. It shows PM Modi holding a football jersey displaying team number as ‘420’, implying that he is a cheat & a fraudster. जिसने यह टी शर्ट बनाया और नंबर चूज किया है उसे 121 तोपों की बेहतरीन सलामी !! सही टी शर्ट दिया है। […]
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Recently on various WhatsApp groups, a fake text is being shared. It claims that “RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, Vladimir Putin Says: Pakistan Is A Cemetery For Pakistani’s.” Fake WhatsApp Message Text: RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, Vladimir Putin Says: Pakistan Is A Cemetery For Pakistani’s: “When a Pakistani becomes rich, his bank accounts are in Switzerland. He travels to London/America […]
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Recently on various WhatsApp groups, a misleading video & text is being shared a lot. An old video of an unrelated protest is being shared claiming police brutality against Ayyappa devotees at the Sabarimala shrine, to create a misleading narrative. OUR FACT CHECK Fact Crescendo team did a fact check on this issue. We did […]
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Recently on various WhatsApp groups, a fake text is being shared a lot. It claims that 125,000 Retired Income Tax officers aged 58-61 years have been recalled by PM Modi. Fake WhatsApp Message Text: 125,000 Retired Income Tax officers aged 58-61 years have been recalled by Modi. They have 3 day training from 28-30 Nov […]
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Recently once again on various WhatsApp groups, a picture & text is being shared a lot. It shows a man being caught by police and claims that Cadbury products have been contaminated by a worker of the company, with his HIV (AIDS) infected blood. WhatsApp Message Text: “This is the guy who added his infected […]
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Recently on various WhatsApp groups, a fake text is being shared a lot. It is written to create urgency in people to click on the link shared and update their personal data. *प्रधानमंत्री आयुष्मान भारत योजना 2018* 13 से 70 साल के लोगो के लिए ख़ुशख़बरी, *भारत सरकार* द्वारा दिया जा रहा है *5 लाख […]
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Recently on various WhatsApp groups, a fake text is being shared a lot. It is written in first person perspective and claims that Gurugram Policemen planted drugs in car trunk at a check post. WhatsApp Message Text: “In Gurgaon, On my way home today at around 8: 15 pm, as soon as I took a […]
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Recently online a BBC research which concluded that a rising tide of nationalism in India is driving ordinary citizens to spread fake news, has created a buzz on social media and WhatsApp. Our readers can read this BBC article here. Our readers can read this BBC article here. And they can download the BBC research […]
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Recently online a photo of CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey, holding an anti-caste poster has been shared on social media and WhatsApp a lot. Courtesy: Twitter/@annavetticad Jack Dorsey was in India the past week and met a group of women journalists for an off-the-record conversation. However, a photo of him from the session, in which […]
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Recently online reviews of so called “miracle” weight loss medicine Nutralyfe Garcinia have been shared on social media and WhatsApp. You can view the webpage here: https://bit.ly/2QaXysB You can also view the archived version of the website here. NARRATIVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA itisrealstoryz.com healthyindia.life fitnesspro.live slimfitness itrealstory.com steemit.com #nutralyfegarcinia – This makes it hard to […]
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Recently on twitter a tragic story of a 12-day-old toddler being snatched and killed by a monkey in Agra, was being shared. Courtsey: TOI Our reader Shishir Kumar, requested us to fact check this incident by forwarding us a twitter post: Monkey kills baby boy in India's Agra https://t.co/mfYKiMiYFA pic.twitter.com/ykRAdZAnns — 1 News Net (@1_newsnet) […]
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Recently on FOOTAGE of a 50-year-old ‘Irish’ woman abusing Air India crew after she was denied alcohol on a flight from Mumbai to London Heathrow has gone viral. In several videos taken onboard, the woman – wrongly identified as an Irish national by Indian media- appears to abusively rant at Air India crew and pilot […]
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Recently on various WhatsApp groups, an image displaying the text “ Man Seeks An Anticipatory Bail In Case A Cracker Lit At 9:59 PM Bursts After 10 PM on Diwali Night”, was being shared by multiple people. NARRATIVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA This type of pictures is being shared by people as a means of satire […]
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The Statue of Unity is a statue of Indian statesman and founding father Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (1875–1950) in the Narmada district of Gujarat, India. It is the world’s tallest statue, with a height of 182 metres (597 ft) or about four times as tall as the Statue of Liberty (excluding the pedestal). The foundation was […]
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Recently, a WhatsApp message in Hindi, has been shared on various WhatsApp groups in reference to the gruesome shooting in busy market in Gurugram, Haryana on 13th October 2018, wherein a police constable (PSO) shot the wife and son of an Additional Session Judge. This message is spreading a misleading & false narrative. NARRATIVE ON […]
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Recently, few WhatsApp and Social Media messages created a panic in parents pan India. These messages were playing on the fears of parents by propagating misleading narrative. NARRATIVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Other messages like: “Don’t give polio drops to children under 5 years” or Readers can also view the same tweet here: http://archive.is/hLLUb Similar messages lead […]
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Fact Crescendo team had published an article in September 2018 about fake messages regarding Income Tax Refunds being shared on WhatsApp. This article is an updation of the same and you can view that previous article below: FactCheck: Income Tax Refund SMS? Recently, once again various users of WhatsApp have received messages like these: WHATSAPP […]
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Two Images, in particular, one showing Mahatma Gandhi dancing and the second claiming to be the real photograph of Godse shooting Gandhi surfaces mainly during both Birth and Death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi for the past few years. Image one is being shared on various different social platforms claiming it to be Mahatma dancing with […]
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Recently, a huge controversy erupted when someone shared a photoshoped picture of PM Modi wherein he is seen allegedly painting the word “LIAR” on the forehead of his wax statue. NARRATIVE IN SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter user @divyaspandana on 1:35 AM(IST) on 24th September 2018, tweeted the following tweet with the #ChorPMChupHai. #ChorPMChupHai pic.twitter.com/Bahu5gmHbn — Divya […]
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Tax paying Citizens of India do keep a check on whether their Income Tax Return are being processed and approved by the Indian Income Tax Department, and these accesses do get notifications from the I-T department in form of emails and SMS’s, However it seems some cyber criminals are using this to their benefit, […]
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Recently, once again Mr. Ratan Tata quotes are being shared again on WhatsApp groups and Twitter. After some interval of time, these quotes or meme’s get shared by various people to promote a specific narrative using Mr. Ratan Tata image and his alleged quotes. Fact Crescendo had fact checked another claim attributed to Mr. Ratan […]
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Sanjay Nirupam, President of Mumbai Regional Congress Committee posted a tweet showing PM Modi allegedly eating a ‘heavy meal’! He also commented in Hindi on that tweet: “न खाऊंगा ना खाने दूंगा” which can be translated to mean: “I won’t eat, and I won’t let others eat”. This is a dig at PM Modi’s famous […]
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Recently on various social media sites and WhatsApp, a video is being forwarded where a man is beating an alleged Naga Sadhu. This video is accompanied by the following text: देहरादून में एक मुसलमान लड़का ,नागा साधु को बुरी तरह पीट रहा है ,जब लोगों ने आपत्ति की तो वो पुलिस से बचने के लिए […]
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Recently, a hoax message asking people to change their profile picture on WhatsApp due to a possibility of hacking has been shared. The message reads something like this: “$$ The people who are having their own profile pic on whatsapp plz change it as soon as possible because some hackers on whatsapp are having the […]
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The latest picture shared widely on social platforms is of a young girl in school uniform sobbing uncontrollably while meeting an old lady. The story has moved many to tears, is though a true one but is a decade old, this picture was taken on September 12, 2007, by photojournalist Kalpesh S Bhachech, his […]
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A story doing the rounds on social media claims: 56 women died at a Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai because of sanitary pads such as Whisper, Stayfree, etc. The chemical used in ultra napkins, which converts liquid into gel, causes cancer in bladder and Uterus. However, the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, India, has professed […]
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After actress Sonali Bendre was diagnosed with cancer, several messages regarding cancer and how to avoid getting the disease, started circulating on WhatsApp. One such forward on breast cancer reads as below: This message has been widely circualted on all the social platforms, however Tata memorial Hospital has clarified that “Tata Memorial Hospital doesn’t circulate […]
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A Picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s wife doing rounds on the social platforms asking people to “not vote for for Mr. Modi in 2019 elections & share the picture if one considers himself as a patriotic”. Factcrescendo did a google reverse image of the picture and the results revealed that it was an old […]
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A story shared on various social platforms shows a picture of Congress President Rahul Gandhi Watching objectionable adult content on His Smartphone. The picture appears to show Rahul Gandhi looking at a bikini-clad woman on his phone. The truth of the matter, however, the truth is that the picture is a photoshopped one. Rahul Gandhi […]
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A former Indian Police Service officer from Gujarat, Sanjiv Bhatt posted an image made up of two photos with “Spot the Difference” i.e trying to convince that since both photos have same story, popular men in both the photos are alike and you already know what Hitler is known for. 1st one shows Hitler pulling […]
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