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Jun 13, 2024 | 
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AFP IndiaJune 13, 2024 at 9:55 PM·3 min readA video of a religious flag atop a truck has been shared in posts that falsely claimed residents of Bareilly city in India's Uttar Pradesh state waved the flag of Muslim-majority Pakistan to celebrate the failure of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to secure a majority in the state after the country's general election.
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May 13, 2024 | 
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"Today's true news, the fight going on in the farmers' protest is very scary," reads a Hindi-language Facebook Reel shared on March 30, 2024. The video shows a group of people hurling projectiles at security personnel dressed in riot gear. Thousands of Indian farmers riding tractors have been protesting at the borders of northern Punjab and Haryana states since February 2024 to demand a minimum support price for their crops.
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May 8, 2024 | 
factcheck.afp.com | Asma Hafiz |AFP India
"Superstar Allu Arjun campaigning for Congress," the Congress party's Jharkhand state unit posted on Facebook on April 21, 2024. Allu Arjun is a popular actor known for his work in southern India's Telugu-language film industry, aka Tollywood. The video shows the star waving to crowds, with text superimposed reading "Victory to Congress".
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May 7, 2024 | 
factcheck.afp.com | Devesh Mishra |AFP India
"Look at the fake voting system in West Bengal," reads a Hindi-language Facebook post shared on April 30, 2024. "There is very little these Muslims won't do. After casting their vote once, they vote again and again by wearing a fake finger to hide the ink on their finger."Like in many countries, Indians get a dab of ink on their index finger after casting their ballot to prevent multiple voting.
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May 2, 2024 | 
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"Accounts of common youth who are doing a tedious job of watching Instagram and Facebook 24x7 will automatically get Rs 8500 credited every month to their bank account," reads the caption of a post shared on X on April 22, 2024.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
factcheck.afp.com | Asma Hafiz |AFP India
"In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, pressed the button for the elephant, the slip came in favour of the lotus," read part of the Hindi-language caption of a Facebook post sharing the video on April 19, 2024. The elephant and lotus are the party symbols representing the opposition Bahujan Samaj Party and the ruling-BJP (archived link).
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
factcheck.afp.com | Devesh Mishra |AFP India
The message purportedly from Ahl-Al-Hadith -- a non-political Islamic group in Bangladesh -- was shared alongside a Hindi-language caption here on X on April 3, 2024. It translated to English as, "Trap a Hindu girl and win up to Rs 3 lakh ($3591); convert a Hindu family and get Rs 5 lakh ($5986). Horrific Islamic fundamentalist plan exposed."The caption further read, “Bangladesh Cyber Team hacked a Facebook page run by Bangladeshi Islamists.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
factcheck.afp.com | Asma Hafiz |AFP India
"The Hindus of Karnataka defeated the BJP and formed the Congress party government," read a Hindi-language Facebook post that shared the video. "Now they are repenting because of the extent to which the Congress government is appeasing Muslims."India's Congress party wrested power of Karnataka from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2023, taking the key state a year before a general election.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
factcheck.afp.com | Asma Hafiz |AFP India
"The British city of Bradford is completely unrecognisable due to mass immigration. The picture is the same in many other European cities," reads part of the post that was shared on X here on March 5, 2024. The post includes a video that shows a bustling market with Muslim women in burqas and abayas walking down the street.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
factcheck.afp.com | Devesh Mishra |AFP India
The 13-second clip -- shared here on X on March 1, 2024 -- shows an Indian policeman chasing and beating a woman with a stick as other officers chase a group of people on a road. "Look at the 'monsters' of West Bengal. How the police and Sheikh's goons are beating sisters and daughters so that they do not raise their voice out of fear," reads the Hindi-language caption of the post, which has been shared 7,000 times.
