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Sir, bottle side rakh ke tweet karo please 🙏
शराब के लिए पैसे हैं लेकिन रेल के भाड़े के लिए नहीं।
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Are you stepping down?
Rajdeep Sardesai should handle PR for ISIS.
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India has 28 states and 2 UTs with elected assemblies. BJP is in power in 18 of these (directly or in coalition), yet the PM was "pressured" by states for his earlier policy of decentralisation of vaccine procurement.
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I'm surprised it took them three days to claim Disha Ravi is Christian.
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If bad experiences with men made women *passionately* fall in love with each other, we'd ALL be lesbians
DANGEROUS is about 2 women who because of bad experiences with men, passionately fall in love with each other and their intense affair throws them into the midst of DANGEROUS criminals and even more DANGEROUS cops which leads to a DANGEROUS climax
#DangerousGirls
#SparkSagar1
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Since you called on fact-checkers for help, here's a thread you might find interesting :)
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My name is Sudhir Chaudhary and I’m not an
#Islamophobe
.
Some communal forces use the tag of islamophobia to target others in the name of religion. My Abu Dhabi experience is proof.
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FIR was filed on April 29. Your broadcast was aired on May 1. This is NOT an update. Apologise and move on.
#UPDATE
: मुम्बई के कुर्ला में पुलिस के साथ बदसलूकी करने वालों पर केस दर्ज हुआ
@AMISHDEVGAN
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A Delhi-based NGO 'Call for Justice' had submitted a fact-finding report on Delhi riots to Amit Shah at his residence. The report, which attempts to blame the Muslim community for the riots, is full of fake news.
THREAD 👇
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Life update: I moved to New York last week. Will be pursuing MS in Data Journalism at
@columbiajourn
. My focus area during the course will be misinformation, and learning new ways to report on the issue.
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I have a joke on OpIndia, but they'll write an article on it.
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Hi
@news24tvchannel
what's your excuse for sharing the same broadcast on March 19 and April 1?
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@SharjeelUsmani
doesn't owe respect to a man who spent his life enabling fascism. I wasn't going to tweet about this, but it's shameful the way some UC Hindu journalists, who'll never know what it feels to watch a show headlined 'Muslim Mukt Bharat', have attacked him.
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Not even a few minutes have passed since Imran Khan's statement & this sorry excuse for a news channel is reporting Pakistan 'gives in'. Tomorrow, they will say PM Modi got Wing Commander Abhinandan back, while Pak govt has successfully attained the moral high ground globally.
#BREAKING
on
#SaluteOurForces
| BIG VICTORY FOR INDIA: Pakistan gives in, will release wing commander Abhinandan tomorrow
Tune in for breaking updates with Major Gaurav Arya (Retd.) here-
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@PrakashJavdekar
tweets video from January to claim govt is supplying coal on "war footing" amid ongoing crisis.
@CNNnews18
, without verifying the video, publishes a story claiming Indian Railways "for the first time" has run a 4-km-long train with 4 engines to supply coal.🤦♀️
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Who pitched this story? Who made the graphic? Who approved it? Completely soulless employees from top to bottom at
@News18India
.
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How are you keeping yourself occupied during the lockdown?
Bhakts: Searching for spitting and sneezing videos on YouTube.
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Really want to know what is
@TwitterIndia
's policy on hate speech. It's been four hours and this tweet still hasn't been taken down.
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OpIndia has shared an X-ray of a spine because many of its readers don't know what it looks like. I'm surprised OpIndia got it right.
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For the past few weeks,
@AltNews
has been working on stories related to hate speech and reaching out to social media platforms to deplatform dangerous individuals. Facebook has been the most unresponsive when it comes to taking action.
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"मैंने बरसों से भारत में पत्रिकारिता नहीं की है, और भविष्य में भी नहीं करूँगा" :- दीपक चौरसिया
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The fourth pillar of democracy risking lives to keep you entertained and distracted.
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The damage that
@OpIndia_com
is capable of is truly astonishing. The police have been wasting their time because the outlet published a false story claiming that a Hindu boy was sacrificed in a mosque in Bihar.
THREAD 👇
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Justice Lokur, Retd SC judge, at CILRAP conference in Italy on 'Religion, Hateful Expression & Violence': "He [Yati Narsinghanad] is violating bail conditions by giving hate speech but no action taken. There's dichotomy of action where police take action if they feel like it..."
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A director who received death threats, whose film was banned in multiple states by the ruling party is making a 'special' feature film on the PM's 'untold' life story. Forget standing up for others, Bollywood can't even stand up against its own subjugation.
#SanjayLeelaBhansali
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I'm really disappointed with the scriptwriters for not adding a "Congress goons were spitting at Arnab" plot twist to the story.
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A couple of weeks ago, an
@IndiaToday
anchor was trolling
@AltNews
for a typo in one of our reports. It's flattering that we are held to such high standards but everybody would be better off if spelling mistakes were the only kind of errors
@IndiaToday
and
@aajtak
made.
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The properties of that doc say '6 pages' but y'all had shared 8 pages yesterday. Did your dog eat the rest?
Friends yesterday Congress wanted to know who’s the Author of the toolkit.
Pls check the properties of the Paper.
Author: Saumya Varma
Who’s Saumya Varma ...
The Evidences speak for themselves:
Will Sonia Gandhi & Rahul Gandhi reply?
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It's funny how in the two years I've lived in Ahmedabad, I've never left a flat of my own volition, always been thrown out by the landlord. I wasn't even in the flat during the last eviction. I was working from home and the RWA decided that unmarried folks should leave. 😓
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Light and sound show at the Jallianwala Bagh. This is it. I've seen everything, I can die now.
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Doesn't matter how offensive or derogatory the post was. The minute you resort to violence, nothing else matters.
#bangaloreriots
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It's unfortunate we've to defend Tikait's use of 'Allah hu Akbar' with the fact that he also invoked a Hindu god's name. Demonisation of Arabic and Urdu is all it takes to brand someone a 'terrorist'. Doesn't matter what a phrase means as long as it's uttered in those languages.
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I want to live in the UP Ajay Bisht imagines he lives in.
In the last 3 days, fresh COVID19 positive cases have gone down in the state. There in no shortage of beds, oxygen and life saving drugs in the State: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath
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What a horrible, vindictive, sadistic regime.
Comedian
#MunawarFaruqui
will not be released from Jail Today: His Lawyer Anshuman Shrivastav
Jail Authorities insist that there should be more clarity on pending warrants in cases registered in UP
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Amit Malviya, tweet from your own account.
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Ms Prakash doesn't like the media being painted as propagators of 'fake news' so thought I should share this link to refresh her memory.
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@indiatvnews
has quietly deleted its broadcast after
@AltNews
fact-check. They played a 2017 video to claim a maulana provoked Jamaatis to 'spit'.
This is real cute. Mainstream media outlets peddle dangerous fake news then take it down with no apology.
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Gin ke 10 log hai office mein, unme se adhe ko aunty ne block kar rakha hai. Baki koi follow nahi karta. Pata hai Ahmedabad mei alcohol nahi milta par aapki toxicity is not an alternative🤦♀️
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Bhakts be tweeting about importance of mEnTaL hEaLth and trolling
@ReallySwara
with the crassiest of remarks at the same time. 🤦
Women have sexual desires. Deal with it and move the fuck on!
P.s found
#Rasbhari
super entertaining. Binge watched in one night. 🙌
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@TV9Bharatvarsh
thinks Maulana Saad is an Islamic preacher by the day and a superhero by the night. Think Kitty Pryde from the X-men.
Thread 👇
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@TajinderBagga
didn't even take the effort to tweet a clip where the chant somewhat sounds like "hinduo" yet 14k people have liked it and 9k people have retweeted it.
Facts are indeed not facts for the biased mind.
READ:
Muslim and Leftists students in Mumbai again Raised Slogans "Hinduo se Aazadi" but this time not in Jamia or JNU , they raised Hinduo se Aazadi Slogans at Gateway of India Mumbai. Will
@MumbaiPolice
@OfficeofUT
take action or support this goons Silently ?
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Hi
@OpIndia_com
the source of your 'news'
@publictvnews
has taken down its broadcast. Would you too? Or your conscious does not approve?
CC
@MyNation
Islam does not approve: Four Muslims who returned from Dubai threaten health officials in Karnataka, refuse to undergo Coronavirus test
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Nearly EVERY media org reported that Russia 'completed' clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccine. It takes seconds to cross-check this news on WHO's COVID tracker. Only Phase I trials were completed. Dedicated fact-checking orgs solely exist coz the media has stopped doing the basics.
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@OpIndia_com
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@AltNews
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@factchecknet
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Who's literally a 'self-proclaimed' fact-checker now? Lol.
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The last 5 months at
@AltNews
has taught me more about journalism than any college degree/media job ever will.
This article took over a week but worth every minute spent.
@free_thinker
ensured that not even a tiny box is left unchecked.
via
@AltNews
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In this
#DoLTright
's superbrain, differential pricing of life-saving vaccines with no government price regulation is equal to the price of a picture on a stock photo agency website that no one needs to buy. 👏
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"Zameen Jihad" -
Fact-check -
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It's strange how 'nationalist' party BJP keeps hearing 'Pakistan zindabad' slogans even when they aren't raised. 🤔
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Muslims protesting citizenship law are called 'jihadis'. Farmers from Punjab protesting against centre's farm legislation are termed 'Khalistanis'. The Christain community is frequently referred to as 'rice bag converts'... no country for anyone except UC Hindu BJP supporters.
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Hi
@Twitter
@TwitterSupport
@TwitterIndia
how does one report accounts for targetted harassment, not via tweets but DM?
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As it turns out, the man is ALIVE. Here's a photograph of him existing MRTB hospital, Indore after recovery on April 12. He is the one in the yellow kurta.
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I complete one year at
@AltNews
today and without a doubt, I've become a more critically aware individual than I was 365 days ago. I'm practically a human lie detector now 😛 thanks to the best mentors one could ask for
@free_thinker
@zoo_bear
@samjawed65
@NirjhariSinha
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@IndiaToday
gets almost everything wrong in its 'exclusive' on Jamia violence. The channel played a clipped video handed over by the SIT to water down police brutality, investigate
@thisisjignesh
and
@Priyankajha0
.
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via
@AltNews
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An apartment complex is under-construction right next to my society. 15 labourers from UP and Bihar are stranded here, living in tin sheds with limited ration. I've offered to help them out with basic supplies at least till my savings permit.
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@CNNnews18
at 6 pm yesterday: "Acid attacker's name changed in Chhapaak"
.
@CNNnews18
at 10 am today: Chhapaak villain "neither 'Nadeem' Nor 'Rajesh'"
.
@CNNnews18
at 1:22 pm today: "Name changed overnight after criticism"
Apne dealer ka number de do yaar🤩
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"Shehla Rashid pocketed money crowdfunded for Kathua rape victim" -
Fact-check -
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देखें, गैंगरेप पीड़ित के नाम पर लाखों का चंदा जमा करने का खेल
#KathuaBahanaDeshNishana
@sudhirchaudhary
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On April 8,
@Republic_Bharat
aired a broadcast where it claimed that a coronavirus patient from MP's Khargone died on March 28. He had a foreign travel history and had also visited Nizamuddin Markaz.
The channel blamed him for hiding these details.
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Pakistan does not own the colour green.
Watch
@Priyankajha0
explain the difference between Pakistani, Islamic and IUML flags.
During the present phase of elections, everything that is green is being claimed to be from Pakistan. In this video, we will show that not every green flag is a Pakistani or an Islamic flag.
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Hi
@BlrCityPolice
, my friend is being harassed over msgs/ calls for the past 1.5 months. She went to your PS and was told to ignore and/or change her SIM. This isn't a solution as the msgs aren't just someone playing a dirty prank but has gone as far as to ask for a ransom. (1/n)
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A video where a man distributes money to riot victims finds a mention in the report as Shaheen Bagh protesters getting paid.
The cherry on top was Tarek Fatah as the source.
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YouTube is rife with Hindutva songs promoting violence against the Muslim population in India. I wrote about how the platform not only allows such content but also auto-generates more from the metadata and recordings provided to YouTube by the channels.
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I wish I had the confidence to ask "why the red fort is called red fort and not green fort" and call the other person an "Olympic level moron" in the same breath 🤦♀️
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But what do 'sit-at-home' journalists know? :(
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Proof that education neither takes away bigotry nor does it make you a good person.
READ:
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The past few days of tasteless communal reporting by mainstream media on violence against Muslims brings us to a story not being talked about enough - 10 people arrested in Ujjain for allegedly chanting 'Pakistan Zindabad'. NSA invoked against four.
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Since his June 7 speech, OpIndia and the likes have been harping about two CMs and two opposition leaders who expressed support for decentralisation. But the fact is that the majority of states wanted the centre to procure vaccines.
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"Taliban hanged a person, presumed to be an American interpreter, from a US Blackhawk helicopter" -
Fact-check -
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"We are not in the business of news but entertainment. Why do you take us seriously if we don't ourselves?" would've 'clarification'. This is an excuse.
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"Mahua Moitra plagiarised her maiden Parliament speech" -
Fact-check -
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यही है अमेरिकी वेब्सायट का वो लेख जिसे तृणमूल कांग्रेस की सांसद महुआ मोइत्रा ने चुराकर लोक सभा में अपने भाषण में इस्तेमाल कर लिया।हुबहू बिलकुल वही शब्द लेख से सीधे उठा लिए और बोल दिए।संसद की गरिमा ख़तरे में है।
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People caught on camera inciting violence are not arrested. People who organise events calling for a genocide of Muslims are released in one day. While Umar Khalid has been denied bail for over 300 days! Mockery of justice.
[Breaking] Advocate
#AshwiniUpadhyay
granted bail by Delhi Court in connection with a case related to the inflammatory sloganeering incident that took place on August 8 at
#JantarMantar
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Did he hide his travel history?
No.
He landed in Delhi on April 20, attended Tablighi Jamaat meet and left at night. He reached Khargone the next day.
On April 24, health officials visited his residence for a check-up because THEY KNEW he had returned from South Africa.
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Tum karo toh mazak, koi aur kare toh "malign the image of a lady" (who btw doesn't need outside help to 'malign' her image). 👏👏👏
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"Rakesh Tikait threatened Zee News for airing the truth" -
Fact-check -
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@imVkohli
Scoldin someone on the street for throwing plastic (& posting their video widout blurring their faces) is not courage. I admire your civic sense but courage is standing up to the real bullies & not endorsing their political gimmicks or clicking happy pics with them at ur wedding.
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@ABPNews
claimed Bandra migrant crisis was a 'conspiracy by the mosque'.
@RubikaLiyaquat
later reported that the incident had no Muslim angle. Subah fake news, shaam ko channel ki hi anchor se 'fact-check'? 🤯
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Yet facts hardly matter if you keep sharing screenshots of the two CM's statements again and again...and again. Repetition is the key to fool people.
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Fact-checkers in India would be jobless if not for mainstream media.
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