Fact Check

A few people, on social media, shared AI-generated images, claiming that they were shot by India's Chandrayaan-3.

India Today, however, found that the viral video shows the victim of the demolition drive carried out by the Delhi Urban Slum Improvement Board in Priyanka Gandhi camp near Vasant Kunj, Delhi, in June.

A video is going viral on social media featuring a group of young men and children supposedly marching in Haryana with weapons and an Islamic flag. India Today found that the video is not related to Haryana, but is from West Bengal's Murshidabad. The video is of July 29, 2023, the day of Muharram. Thus, it is safe to conclude that the viral video does not link with Haryana.

At least six people were killed and dozens, including several policemen, were injured after violence broke out in Haryana's Nuh district on July 31, fuelling communal tensions across the state. India Today found that the video in question is from a 2019 incident in Gujarat’s Surat.

A startling video of a scooter flying away due to strong winds is being widely shared on social media. Allegedly, this happened during the recent Typhoon Doksuri in China. The typhoon made landfall in Mainland China on July 28 unleashing heavy rain and violent gusts of wind.

 A video of a group of people attempting to walk up on an escalator moving downward has gone viral on social media. Allegedly, this incident took place at a pedestrian overpass in India. The archived version of the post can be seen here.

A video of a group of men pelting stones allegedly showed Muslim men in Kerala attacking Hindu houses, threatening them to vacate. However, their target was not visible. India Today found that the video was from 2016 and it shows members of the Indian Union Muslim League members attacking houses of cadre belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party, over the murder of their party worker Muhammad Aslam. In a span of two days, IUML workers attacked more than 50 houses in Nadapuram, in the Kozhikode District of Kerala. The majority of the targeted houses belonged to CPI(M), Congress, and the BJP party cadre. CCTV footage of the attack was collected by the police, leading to cases being registered against 50 individuals in connection with the incident. India Today's fact check found that the video in question is from 2016 and that the protest was in retaliation for the murder of an IUML member.

India Today Fact Check found that the video is more than two years old and is unrelated to the launch of Chandrayaan-3.

India Today's investigation found that the videos are old and from Gujarat, thus unrelated to the current flooding situation in Delhi.

India Today, in its investigation, found that none of these clips show the violent riots in France.

The viral hate speech was made in Barmer, Rajasthan, in 2019. It has nothing to do with Bangalore or Karnataka. 

India Today's Anti Fake News War Room (AFWA) found that an old video from a 2021 Titan expedition was falsely shared as the final moments of the passengers inside the Titan sub before its implosion.

India Today found that a lorry coming from the opposite direction hit the right side of a bus and two women sitting by the windows were seriously injured and one of them lost an arm.

India Today found that none of these images showed the actual debris of the submersible Titan. The US coast guard did not release any images of the Titan debris at the time of writing this story.

India Today found that both are old and unrelated to the recent tragedy. Also, there is no credible evidence to suggest that the Pakistani migrants on the boat were terrorists.

India Today found that the video is from the Central American country Nicaragua.

India Today found that the video actually shows a child being treated for injuries received during Russian airstrikes in December 2015 in Idlib, Syria.

India Today Fact Check found that this incident is months-old. At the time, the Bharatiya Janata Party's Basavaraj Bommai was the Karnataka Chief Minister, not Siddaramaiah.