In order to curb the menace of fake news on Facebook, the company launched its India-based fact-checking initiative by partnering with Mumbai-based fact-checking organisation BoomLive. Boomlive and Facebook seem to be doing a terrible job at curbing portals and platforms infamous for sharing fake news. Fun fact – Boomlive is affiliated to India Spend, an organization notorious for spreading misinformation and twisting facts, and has been exposed many times.
In October last year Facebook announced that it had hired Trushar Barot, a veteran journalist from the BBC stables. in order to combat fake information. Recently Barot was found defending BBC’s bogus report on fake news- titled “Beyond Fake news” which was heavily biased against the right-wingers. Rightlog.in was one of the portals highlighted in the BBC report too without using referencing any of our alleged fake news stories. Funnily, ‘The Better India’ a media portal which is known for featuring positive news about India was also accused of spreading fake news by the BBC in their report.
For more details: The Better India demands a public apology from BBC
As a part of their crusade against Fake News, Facebook has begun its relentless crackdown on right wing pages, portals and personalities however pages affiliated to left wing ideology seem to be immunised from it.
Here is a comprehensive list of fake news spread by pages affiliated to left-wing forces. And these are not one-time wonders, most of them are compulsive and habitual fake news peddlers.
1.) Alok Verma calls Narendra Modi the most corrupt prime minister of Independent India
As per this post, ex-CBI director called Narendra Modi the most corrupt Prime Minister of Independent India. The post was liked by 11000 people and shared by 18000 people.
This post was shared by a page called ‘I support Ravish Kumar’. Here’s the link to the post.
And Alok Verma never said anything even remotely close to what has been claimed in the viral post.
2.) BJP President Amit Shah had to run away from a public program because of public anger
As per this post, BJP president had to run away from many public programs because of public anger. This is as fake as it can get. Nothing like this has ever happened.
This post was shared by a page called ‘Sonia Gandhi Iron Lady’. Here is the link to the post.
3.) As per this post, the BJP stopped live streaming of Rahul Gandhi’s speech. This post was shared by the same page called ‘Sonia Gandhi Iron Lady’. Here is the link to the post.
On a related note, BJP stopping the live streaming of Rahul Gandhi’s speech makes no sense at all, because his speeches replete with gaffes and incoherence end up benefitting the BJP.
4.) The photo used in the post is actually an old photo from Shahjahanpur where bricks with Sri Ram written on them were used in the construction of the drains. Here is the link which exposes the hollowness of claims made in this post by this page called ‘I Support Vinod Dua’. Link of the post can be found here. This is again fake news. Big and brazen one!
5.) This post claims that the man in the picture died standing in queue due to demonetization. However, the reality is that this picture of dead is actually from a farm land in Rajasthan. Here is the link validating this real news.
This fake post was shared by a page called ‘Ravish Kumar The Real Hero’. Here is the link to the post.
6.) As per this post posted by a page called ‘Sir Abhisar Sharma’, the BJP government has not done any farm loan waiver.
However, the truth is that Yogi Government announced farm loan waiver only a few days after assuming power and allotted 36,000 crores for this purpose.
‘Here’ is the link to the post.
7.) The figures in the picture posted by the page called ‘Journalist Punya Prasun Bajpai’ are wrong.
PM Modi has not spent this much money on his foreign trips and advertisement, and the most importantly Punya Prasun Bajpai never said anything like this ever.
Here is link to the post.
8.) Fake quote attributed to former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, he never said anything as claimed in this picture.
This picture was shared by a page called ‘We Support Shatrughan Sinha’.
Here is the link to the post.
9.) Fake quote attributed to senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, he never said anything as claimed in this pic.
This picture was shared by a page called ‘I am with RAGA’.
Here is the link to the post.
10.) This picture is not from the recent farmers protest but from a 2013 protest. This Link validates the same.
This picture was shared by a page called ‘We Support Prakash Raj’.
Here is link to the post.
11.) This page called ‘Priyanka Gandhi- Future of India’ claims that Modi government has brought a new rule that Rs. 10 will be deducted every time you change your ATM pin and password while the truth is that there is no such rule.
Here is link to the post.
12.) Whatever this page is claiming is completely false. Shatrughan Sinha has said many things but has never said something like the one mentioned in this post.
This picture was shared by a page called ‘I am with Ravish Kumar’. This page is full of fake quote in the name of famous celebrities. Ideally it should be suspended.
Here is link to the ‘post’.
13.) The page shared edited newspaper image. Total donation money was only 2 crore but they wrote 200 crore in order to mislead the people. Here is the link to the news.
This fake news was shared by a page called ‘The Halla Bol’.
Here is the link of the post.
14.) Again a fake quote is being attributed to another senior BJP leader- Lal Krishna Advani, he never said anything as claimed in this pic.
This image was shared by the page called ‘Hamari Bhool, Kamal Ka Phool’.
Here is the link to the post.
15.) No reports in mainstream media claim CAG report as ‘scam done under BJP govt’. But this political page declares CAG’s interim findings as ‘scam’ by BJP. This is fake news.
This fake news was shared by the page called ‘Bolta Hindustan’. Here is the link to the post.
16.) The article claims that the BJP President Amit Shah and Arun Jaitley insulted Shivraj Singh Chouhan and pushed him away. Whereas nothing like this has happened. The video shown in this article too fails to show that clip. In the clip Amit Shah was not even looking at Shivraj Singh Chouhan and made a hand gesture at someone in front of him. Headline is totally misleading, clickbait and fake news!
This post was shared by a page called ‘Prasoon Vajpaaye fans’. Here is the link to the post.
17.) Another page called ‘I Support Ravish Kumar’ has spread the same fake mentioned above (number 16.)
Here is the link to the post.
18.) This report states that BJP president had to run away from many public programs because of public anger. Totally false news. No such thing has happened.
This post was shared by the page called ‘Priyanka Gandhi- Next PM of India’.
Here is the link to the post.
19.) Japan never stopped funding of Bullet Train. This is fake news.
This fake news was shared by the page called ‘Fekunama’.
Here is the link to the post.
20.) A page called ‘Viral in India’ shared the same fake news as shared by the I Support Ravish Kumar and Prasoon Vajpaaye fans, where they claimed that the BJP President Amit Shah and Arun Jaitley insulted Shivraj Singh Chauhan and pushed him away.
Here is link to the post.
21.) A page called ‘Unofficial: Priyanka Gandhi’ shared fake statistics in order to mislead public. The Media claims only one riot took place under Modi govt but this banner claims there are over 195. Highly inflated figures just to mislead public. 44 ‘people’ killed were actually gangsters killed in encounters.
22.) The photo used is actually an old photo from Shahjahanpur where the bricks with Sri Ram written on them were used in the construction of the drains. Here is the link which exposes the hollowness of claims made in this post by page called ‘Bhakto Ka Baap Ravish Kumar’.
Here is the link to the post.
22.) This page called ‘Hidden News’ has spread the same fake news that was spread by the page called Bhakto Ka Baap Ravish Kumar (Number 22).
Photo Posted in the name of Ayodhya is actually an old photo from Shahjahanpur used in the construction of drains. Here is the link.
Here is the link to the post.
23.) This page called ‘Beef Janata Party’ has shared a misleading photo of a crying old man, they did so demonize demonetization.
The truth is that the man was crying because someone crushed his foot while he was in the queue. Here’s a Linkvalidating the same.
Here is the link to the post.
24.) Advertisements by Modi government were ad-spends on government schemes and not on his personal PR campaigns. This banner tries to show it as his personal advertisement budget which is absolutely wrong/misleading.
This post was shared by the page called ‘No More BJP’.
Here is the link to the post.
25.) Fake tweet image created in the name of PM Modi.
This post was shared by the page called ‘Jobless Jack’. Here is link to the post.
26.) Photo posted in the name of Ayodhya is actually an old photo from Shahjahanpur used in the construction of drains.
This post was shared by the page called ‘Bluffmaster Modi’.
Here is the link to the post.
27.) Highly inflated figures. Mega fake news.
This post was shared by the page called ‘Outrage Gaayab’.
Here is link to the post.
28.) This new paper cutting was used to project Modi Government as the reason behind the suicide of 4 youths. However the news is totally different.
This was shared by the page called The Truth of ‘BJP’.
Here is link to the post.
This is just the tip of iceberg and these are fairly recent posts. The truth is that while right wingers are always under the scanner of Facebook, the portal takes no action against the anti-BJP pages. These spread fake news openly without any fear of getting banned or unpublished by the social media giant whose liberal bias is stuff of legends now
Facebook suspended instant articles access of tfipost.com for no apparent reason. After a long fight of over 5 months we managed to get FB instant back. This is how bias looks like. And Boomlive is up to no good!