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Logically→ Unrelated video shared as Tamil Nadu man chopping off his finger for voting for Congress
Logically→ Viral video of people rescuing man from open drain from Tamil Nadu, not Mumbai
Logically→ ‘The Kerala Story’ has not been banned by Kerala and Tamil Nadu
Logically→ An old image of young men from Tamil Nadu wearing ISIS t-shirts falsely linked to Kerala.
Logically→ An old image from Kolkata with graffiti that reads “Go Back Modi” resurfaces claiming to be from Tamil Nadu.
Logically→ Video shows a worker from Bihar who was stabbed to death in Tamil Nadu.
Logically→ Tamil Nadu Police has banned Jallikattu in the state till March 2023.
Tamil Nadu Police has dismissed the claim as fake news and clarified that there is no ban on animal sports such as Jallikattu or Kambala in the state.
Logically→ Photo shows Assamese elephant Joymala subjected to ill-treatment in Tamil Nadu.
A 2019 photo of Gluay Holm, an injured elephant from Thailand, has been shared as that of Joymala.
Logically→ The temples in Tamil Nadu have to pay more for electricity than churches or mosques.
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Logically→ Former Union Law Minister Ravishankar Prasad is appointed as the governor of Tamil Nadu.
Ravi Shankar Prasad has not been officially appointed as the governor of Tamil Nadu and all reports saying otherwise are just speculations.
Logically→ Udhay Stalin: The funds supposed to compensate for the shortfall in Tamil Nadu’s GST revenue are being used to make a new parliament building.
Through the final weekly installment, the central government has released the GST compensation shortfall to all the states, including Tamil Nadu.
Logically→ Tamil is the world’s oldest language.
Though we can not ascertain the world's oldest language, other languages including Chinese and Egyptian are older than Tamil.
Logically→ Caste-based violence has risen in Tamil Nadu, reaching its peak with a 40 per cent increase during the lockdown.
Reports show cases of atrocities against Dalits rose multifold in Tamil Nadu with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic
Logically→ Over half of the 2021-22 fiscal budget was allocated to states headed for elections including Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Kerala.
In view of the assembly elections in four states, Finance Minister earmarked multi-crore infrastructure allocations to West Bengal, TN, and Kerala.
Logically→ Over half of the 2021-22 fiscal budget was allocated to states headed for elections including Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Kerala.
In view of the assembly elections in four states, Finance Minister earmarked multi-crore infrastructure allocations to West Bengal, TN, and Kerala.
Logically→ Tamil Nadu was the first state to pioneer all-women police stations.
Although Tamil Nadu wasn't the first state to open the All Women Police Station(AWPS), it did implement the concept widely in a short span.
Logically→ Under AIADMK Tamil Nadu has become the second-largest contributor to India’s GDP.
Although the state has seen growth under AIADMK's successive tenures, both AIADMK and DMK's commitment to progressive politics has aided rise in GDP.
Logically→ DMK claims to have conducted Gram Sabha Meets in 25,000 villages while Tamil Nadu has only 15,979 villages.
The latest list by the TN Govt. shows that the state has more than 30,000 villages and DMK has conducted Gram Sabha Meets in about 25,000 villages.
Logically→ AAP will contest state elections in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.
The party has not announced any plans to contest elections in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.
AFP Fact Check→ This photo actually shows former Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha with a Tamil writer
Multiple Facebook posts have shared a monochrome photograph of two women alongside a claim that it shows late regional politician Jayaram Jayalalitha sitting with India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party politician and current Finance Minister Nirmala
Truth or Fiction?→ Global New Year Celebrations Debunked
As the Earth completes another journey around the sun, many of us mark the occasion by celebrating the New Year on January 1st. This widely recognized commemoration is rooted in the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, which currently serves as the in
Logically→ ಕಾವೇರಿ ಜಲ ವಿವಾದ: ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದಲ್ಲಿ ತಮಿಳಿನ ಲಾರಿ ಚಾಲಕನ ಮೇಲೆ ಹಲ್ಲೆ ನಡೆಸಲಾಗಿದೆ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಲು ೨೦೧೬ರ ವೀಡಿಯೋವನ್ನು ಹಂಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಾಗಿದೆ
Truth or Fiction?→ Mass Shootings, Violence in California Highlight Issue of Disinformation in Immigrant Communities
Two mass shootings in California in the first weeks of 2023, both committed by immigrants in their sixties, have highlighted the issue of disinformation and propaganda targeting American immigrant communities, and how the prods and pulleys of stochasti
Logically→ U.K. PM Rishi Sunak hosted a Pongal lunch at his official residence for government and police officials.
The visuals are of a cultural event held in Canada by members of the Tamil community to celebrate Pongal and not of a lunch hostel by Sunak.
Logically→ An RSS member burned the Indian National Flag.
The man who burned the Tricolour is not from RSS but a school teacher from Tamil Nadu. The incident is from 2018.
Logically→ The image shows Supreme Court Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala having lunch with Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy.
Tamil Nadu Finance Minister P Thiagarajan and Ram Narasimhan have been misidentified as Supreme Court Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Helicopter Crash Video Was NOT One That Killed General From India — This Crash Is From Syria
Is this the video of the helicopter crash that killed former Gen. Bipin Rawat of the Indian Armed Forces on December 8, 2021? No, that's not true: This footage documented a helicopter crash in Syria almost two years earlier, in February 2
Logically→ A photo shows a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh shooting at farmers at the Karnal Toll plaza.
A 2018 image from the Sterlite protest firing from Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, has been misattributed to the farmers' protest in Karnal, Haryana.
Logically→ Eight percent of people are responsible for 60 percent of COVID-19 cases in India
The study in question was conducted in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, not the whole of India.
Truth or Fiction?→ Did the CDC Issue Zombie Apocalypse Guidelines in 2021 Because of a Nostradamus Prophecy?
On March 3 2021, a number of Fox affiliates shared an article claiming that due to a purported 2021 Nostradamus prophecy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had created “just in case” guidance for a “zombie apocalypse̶
AFP Fact Check→ This photo shows a train timetable produced in Sri Lanka for Chinese tourists — the station has another timetable written in Sinhala language
A photo of a train timetable in Sri Lanka featuring English and Chinese text has been shared hundreds of times in multiple Facebook posts alongside a claim that Chinese has replaced local languages such as Sinhala and Tamil in Sri Lanka. The claim is m
Poynter→ Fact-checking night three of the 2020 DNC with Barack Obama and Kamala Harris
Sen. Kamala Harris of California became the first Black and Asian American woman to accept the vice presidential nomination of a major political party during the third night of the 2020 virtual Democratic National Convention. And — fact-check us —
Poynter→ Fact-checking night three of the 2020 DNC with Barack Obama and Kamala Harris
Sen. Kamala Harris of California became the first Black and Asian American woman to accept the vice presidential nomination of a major political party during the third night of the 2020 virtual Democratic National Convention. And — fact-check us —
Lead Stories→ Fake News: 700 Bodies of Alleged "Harvested Children" NOT Found in Malaysia
Were 700 dead children found in Malaysia and were they the victims of organ harvesting? No, that's not true. A 2016 hoax featuring gruesome photos of dead children (including one packed in a cardboard box wrapped up in tape) keeps being circ