

Fake News 34: In Chhattisgarh, 108 out of 159 “Tableeghis” turn out to be Hindus.

At least two government officials, who didn’t want to be named, told ThePrint that of the 159, over 100 are Hindus.



Fake News 33: Zee News: AP has 11 COVID19 positive cases related to Tablighi Jamat

As soon as the Government of Arunachal Pradesh was alerted to this report, they lashed out at Zee News for carrying an “inauthentic” report.



Fake News 32: Bawana: Muslim man injecting fruits with spit

ACP Bawana informed that the claim that Ali used injections filled with spit on fruits is false.



Fake News 31: Doctor died after she was attacked by “Islamic jihadis” in Uttar Pradesh

BOOM found that the pharmacist died of brain hemorrhage in Madhya Pradesh and not due to stone pelting in UP, as is being claimed online.



Fake News 30: Fake sanitizes seized in Bangladesh, pics viral in India with communal spin

At a time India is facing a shortage of face masks and hand sanitisers in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, images of “fake hand sanitisers” have gone viral with a communal spin.



Fake News 29: Video : Call to Boycott Muslim Businesses in Karnataka

Kodagu Superintendent of Police Dr Suman D Pennekar confirmed to The Quint, that the video is old and has been re-shared by some miscreants to spread fake news.



Fake News 28: UP man was sent to spread corona virus

The rumours were spread to settle old scores where Naimuddin had lodged a complaint against one of three arrested.



Fake News 27: Video of an ‘anti-terror attack’ mock drill is being shared as ‘Coronavirus jihadists arrested in UP’

The video is being shared with a misleading claim. The video is actually of a mock drill conducted by Ayodhya police on 2 April.



Fake News 26: Salon attendant applies saliva on customer’s face to spread corona

With a keyword search (saliva face massage) on YouTube, Alt News found this video posted by a channel named Amazing video on June 6, 2015.



Fake News 25: Tablighi Jamaat member roaming naked in isolation ward

Old video from Pakistan falsely viral as Tablighi Jamaat member roaming naked in isolation ward in Uttar Pradesh



Fake News 24: ANI News: Tablighi Jamaat members contacts have been quarantined in Noida

DCP Noida refutes ANI on linking quarantine setup in Sector 5 Harola with Tablighi Jamaat



Fake News 23: Pune doctors in quarantine after Tablighi Jamaat meet attendee tests positive

Asked if the man has any link to the Tablighi Jamaat, Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Commissioner Shravan Hardikar said the patient does not have any connection to the outfit.



Fake News 22: Muslim vendors have sprung up in Surat to spread coronavirus

Police rubbished the claims, and no media reports backed the narrative put forward in the clip



Fake News 21: Tablighi Jamaat members defecate in open after being refused non-veg food

Saharanpur police investigated the claims about members of Tablighi Jamaat defecating in the open when they weren’t served non-veg food as per their demands. The police found the report to be untrue.



Fake News 20: Mother-daughter duo caught selling drugs in Shaheen Bagh

After rummaging through the results of another reverse image search, we found that the viral video was also published by a Pakistan-based YouTube channel on July 20, 2019. The title reads, ‘Karachi young girl drug dealer arrested

Fake News 19: Haj Bhavan, Bangalore foul play in coronavirus tests

The commissioner said he visited the Haj Bhavan and independently confirmed that it was being wrongly attributed Haj Bhavan Bangalore.



Fake News 18: Muslim man is flouting quarantine rules and spitting inside bread packets

The Quint can confirm that the video is from the Philippines and first surfaced in September 2019, long before the coronavirus outbreak was first reported



Fake News 17: BJP MP: Jamaat attendees spat at Belagavi hospital staff

This claim has been denied by Belagavi Deputy Commissioner SB Bommanahalli, who said that the people quarantined in the district were not spitting or misbehaving with health workers.



Fake News 16: Muslims are coming out of Hindu temple rooms

A video of Muslim patients exiting a COVID-19 quarantine centre set up in a residential lodging was shared with the false claim that Vinayaka Ganesh temple was used for the purpose.



Fake News 15: Tabligh Jamat youth ‘spitting and misbehaving’ with doctors and staff

The channel’s report was declared as ‘fake’ by the Chhattisgarh state fake news control and special monitoring cell.



Fake News 14: Zee News: Medical staff escorting Tablighi Jamaat men was pelted with stones

The Firozabad police have refuted a media report claiming that a medical team escorting coronavirus-positive members of the Tablighi Jamaat was pelted with stones in Uttar Pradesh



Fake News 13: UP Man shot to death in Kareli over an argument on Tablighi Jamaat congregation

The tweet from Prayagraj Policefurther clarified that no information regarding links of Tabhligi Jamaat with either the victims or the accused have come to light.



Fake News 12: Man rubbing currency notes on his face beaten by police

A video was manufactured to claim that the man who rubbed currency notes on his face, unbothered about coronavirus infection, was beaten by the police. The clip which shows a wounded man is unrelated to this incident.



Fake News 11: Racist heckling falsely viral as Muslim man spits on passenger in New York metro

The social media claim that a Muslim person spat on a man in a New York subway is false and misleading. Several such claims have been made amidst the pandemic which falsely target the Muslim community.



Fake News 10: Hubballi: Locals allege police high-handedness triggered stone-pelting

The stone-pelting incident at Hubballi that the police blamed on Muslims who gathered for the Friday prayers in defiance of the lockdown was actually triggered by the police themselves, locals have claimed.



Fake News 9: Undertrial in Mumbai falsely viral as Nizamuddin markaz attendee spitting at cop

The video is unrelated to Tablighi Jamaat meet and has been shared to falsely portray that the man was an attendee spitting at cops to spread coronavirus infection



Fake News 8: Muslim Foreign Nationals with coronavirus hiding in Patna Mosque to avoid testing

No, foreign nationals from Italy, Iran weren’t hiding in Patna mosque to avoid coronavirus testing



Fake News 7: Muslim worker in restaurant spitting in food to spread coronavirus

Alt News broke the video into multiple keyframes and performed a reverse image search of one of the frames on Google. We found that the video was uploaded by a YouTube channel on April 27, 2019.



Fake News 6: Video Muslim policeman beating a Hindu priest

The social media claims attached to the incident are false on multiple counts – 1) the police officer seen thrashing the priest was not SP Abid Khan but TI Rajkumar Mishra, 2) the priest was not praying alone but among a gathering of at least 50 people

Fake News 5: News agency ANI runs a baseless story claiming Hindus denied rations in Karachi No evidence supports Indian news agency’s baseless story claiming Hindus denied rations in Karachi



Fake News 4: Fake whatsapp videos led to attack on health team in Indore

Fake WhatsApp videos claiming that healthy Muslims are being taken away and injected with the virus have been doing the rounds of Tatpatti Bakhal and adjoining localities.



Fake News 3: Muslims sneeezing in Unison to spread Corona

The claim is misleading. Since the video shows people inhaling and exhaling in an exaggerated manner, a Google search with the keywords ‘Muslim inhaling ritual’ was done which led to the concept of ‘Zikr’.



Fake News 2: Muslims licking utensils to spread Corona

We found that the video was shared even earlier, on July 30, 2018, on Twitter where the user wrote, “Bohras eat together in a big “thaal”. This one is from a jamatkhana where on several occasions there is food served. What’s happening here is taking not wasting food at an extreme level.”

Fake News 1: Muslim man spitting on fruits to spread Corona

Sheru’s daughter, Fiza told The Quint that her father is not well and the video in circulation is old. She further said that her father had a habit of counting money like that and that he was just sorting the fruits in the same way.