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Here are a few pages which are run by @meamabhishek to push his fake Articles. For a change, he posts Anti Modi pos… https://t.co/LAaGrxmk4U — Unofficial Sususwamy (@swamv39) 1525721180000

आज राजा दिग्विजय जी को 31 तारीख़ से होने वाली नर्मदा यात्रा की शुभकामनाएँ दी ।अगले 6 महीने तक के लिए राजनीति से दूर… https://t.co/MKoBTi7R68 — Abhishek Mishra (@meamabhishek) 1505562821000

Ths twitter usr. @meamabhishek who is folwd by none othr thn Delhi CM #ArvindKejriwal, he cals himslf an RTI acti… https://t.co/9eYxaPFbvS — 🚩 LD 🇮🇳 (@rohan52_Online) 1534925437000

Narendra Modi ji is proud of running the corrupt free government. @meamabhishek Your lies & fake news has been expo… https://t.co/RxgtVXaYDA — Mitesh Jain (@MK7786) 1502195615000

Meet @meamabhishek, another headless chicken of @AamAadmiParty hate monger circulating FAKE info via @verified hand… https://t.co/bl2SAXxGc1 — #GauravPradhan 🇮🇳 (@DrGPradhan) 1487689145000

Fake content exhibit 1: USA declares former PM Manmohan Singh the most honest Indian politician.

Fake content exhibit 2:

Donald Trump

bows down in front of Akhilesh Yadav

Fake content exhibit 3: Muslim makes history by doing Namaz on moon

Fake content exhibit 4: PM Modi demanded Aadhar card before allowing girls to tie him rakhi

Fake content exhibit 5: The page regularly invents controversial quotes and attributes them to politicians and celebs.

Harbhajan Singh:

President Ram Nath Kovind:

Shatrughan Sinha:

Vladimir Putin:

Lal Krishna Advani:

Fake content exhibit 6: Hen gives birth to 3 puppies

NEW DELHI. One of the biggest fake news peddler on Facebook is a page that goes by the name ‘Viral in India’. The page has close to a million followers. It regularly spreads misinformation on social media through controversial posts.The page is reportedly run by Abhishek Mishra, someone who claims to be an RTI activist on his Twitter bio. He often boasts of his closeness to many Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders and is often slammed for posting fake content on his personal Twitter timeline.Last year, Mishra was called out after he tweeted a fake CNN report to claim that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was the most corrupt party in the world.In another instance, right after the BJP won elections in Uttar Pradesh, Mishra posted a fake image claiming that prosthetics were used by the saffron party to subvert election process by enabling their voters to vote multiple times, another fake claim.Extending the same modus operandi on to the page ‘Viral in India’, Mishra and his team uses it purvey fake images, videos, photoshopped tweets, fake quotes etc. The page is affiliated to a website called viralinindia.net, which regularly publishes misleading reports.Take a look at some of the fake content posted by ‘Viral In India’ in the past:An image of Manmohan displayed during a state dinner hosted by Barack Obama in December 2016 was misrepresented as one declaring him the most honest leader.This is nothing more than a desperate attempt at click-bait. Trump probably doesn't even know about Akhilesh's existence.Needless to explain that this claim is totally fake.This is absolutely untrue. As per the security protocol of PMO India, any visitor is required to carry an ID-proof. Times Fact-Check team has already busted this false claim here .“Rahul Gandhi is not just a good politician but a wonderful human being too. It is imperative for India’s growth that he becomes country’s PM”“Congress has taken our nation forward”“Kill Muslims, dalits, farmers, journalists, judges but never bat an eyelid as you could be labelled anti-national”“Manmohan Singh in the classiest leader I have ever met”“A person who is known to shoot after touching feet would never like the hug by Rahul Gandhi”The examples shared above are only a handful of the fake content this page promotes. We urge social media users to be careful about such pages.Keep following this space for more such alerts.