Akshita Kumari
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
Digital Verification Journalist at AFP Relaxnews
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13 hours ago |
malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Akshita Kumari
Akshita KUMARI / AFP India24 April 2025 at 2:58 am·3-min readAs students in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad protested the felling of a forested area for development, footage of a herd of elephants crossing farmland circulated alongside the false claim it showed the animals "after the government demolished their home". However, the video was actually filmed in neighbouring Sri Lanka. "After the government demolished their home...
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6 days ago |
yahoo.com | Akshita Kumari
Protests erupted across India after the parliament passed a bill that seeks to change how properties donated by Muslims are governed, but a video shared in multiple posts does not depict one of them. The clip first circulated in news reports about a demonstration held by lawyers against the revision of a law that can potentially ban them from holding strikes.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Akshita Kumari
"Sree Rama sethu inside the sea," reads the caption to a video shared on Facebook on April 3. The series of clips appears to show scuba divers navigating underwater rock structures with inscriptions on them, some free floating in the water while others resemble temples. Text overlaid on the video reads, "POV: You are a scuba diver exploring Ramasetu".
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Akshita Kumari
Indian media reported in late March that the government in the southern Hyderabad city began clearing an urban forest, sparking protests from students in an adjacent university. But a widely shared visual purportedly depicting animals running away from bulldozers at the site bears errors that indicate it is made with AI. "This picture has broken my heart. This is my Alma mater HCU (University of Hyderabad) where deforestation is going on.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Akshita Kumari
After clashes broke out between religious groups in West Bengal in March 2025, a video was shared in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed the violence in the eastern Indian state. The footage in fact shows a violent political protest in northeastern Bangladesh in November 2023. The video, showing people smashing vehicles with sticks on a road littered with burning embers, was viewed more than 3,600 times after it was shared on Facebook on March 28, 2025.
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