India Today Anti-Fake News War Room found that a video featuring a group of young men brandishing guns at the reception of a Samajwadi Party leader is misleading. The viral video is more than five years old and is not related to the ongoing elections in Uttar Pradesh.
A video of Akhilesh Yadav misbehaving with a senior doctor at a hospital in Kannauj because he was Brahmin went viral on social media. India Today Anti-Fake News War Room found this claim misleading.
A photo shared by pro-BLA handles on social media claims to be the coffins of Pakistani personnel killed in the Panjgur operation. India Today Anti Fake News War Room found the claim to be misleading.
India Today Anti Fake News War Room found the claim to be misleading. The photos in circulation were actually taken at a Mumbai college during the Independence Day celebrations in 2018 and 2019.
With only days away from the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, social media has been abuzz with heated campaigning by political parties, and a whole lot of misinformation spread by people, either knowingly or unwittingly.