On the 4th International Fact-Checking Day, the world is celebrating facts and equipping journalists, professional fact-checkers with resources to help separate fact from fiction.
In the past months, team NewsMobile has religiously busted several fake news on–Balakot airstrikes, Amazon fires, Ayodhya dispute, Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, misinformation regarding enactment of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) of 2019 and National Register of Indian Citizens (NRC) across the country, protests against the CAA in Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMI) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi-NCR and now the World Health Organization (WHO) declared pandemic Coronavirus a.k.a COVID-19.
Here are some of the viral fake news debunked by NewsMobile Team
FIFA President didn’t gift football jersey to PM Modi with ‘Modi 420’ written on it
http://newsmobile.in/articles/2018/10/06/this-is-not-an-ias-officer-or-her-father-in-the-picture/
Fact Check: This woman in the viral picture is not a JNU student
http://newsmobile.in/articles/2020/03/09/dont-believe-the-fake-news-of-9-yo-quaden-bayles-committing-suicide/
Old video of mock drill shared as protest in Assam over Citizenship Amendment Act
http://newsmobile.in/articles/2019/06/11/was-this-man-hanged-for-hacking-money-and-giving-it-to-poor-heres-the-fact-check/
http://newsmobile.in/articles/2020/01/03/fact-check-imran-khan-tweets-fake-video-calls-it-pogrom-against-muslims-in-up/
This emotional video of a ‘mother’s touch reviving a dead baby’ is a TV ad
http://newsmobile.in/articles/2019/08/21/smriti-mandhana-didnt-become-the-first-women-cricketer-to-score-double-century-in-odi/
http://newsmobile.in/articles/2019/06/18/fact-checked-heres-the-truth-behind-boses-version-of-the-national-anthem/
Fake Alert! Cocaine doesn’t cure Coronavirus, here’s the fact
http://newsmobile.in/articles/2020/02/22/discovery-of-3000-tonnes-of-gold-deposits-in-up-heres-the-truth/
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