Author: Elesha Sharma

New Delhi: On 6th January 2023 Shubham Sharma, the founder of NEO POLITICO an international media group posted a tweet claiming that a six year old Brahmin kid was in jail in a false SC/ST Act case. You can find the tweet here and the web archive of the post here. The similar claim was also mis-reported by several Twitter users and some media groups including the parent company of NEO POLITICO, the Falana Dikhana here and OpIndia here; it mentioned “A district court in Uttarakhand’s Tehri sent a six-year-old child to jail along with his family booked under SC/ST…

New Delhi: A short clip with the claim that in Australia “parents go furious as a video of children in Australia being taught how to pray in a mosque goes viral. Furious parents accuse the school of brainwashing and ‘Islamizing’ their children in the name of pleasing a migrant community”. The claim was shared by many social media users with more than 20K followers including Supreme Court lawyer Shashank Shekhar Jha, he claimed “Australia: Schools going students are made to do Namaz without permission from their parents.” (who deleted his tweet after being called out; web archive of his post…