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True: The IRS is hiring armed special agents prepared to use deadly force. About this rating In April 2023, Insider reported on an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) job posting for armed special agents. The reporting focused heavily on the armed portion of the job posting, which advertised positions for criminal investigation special agents, part of the la (Source: Snopes)
False: Video shows Bollywood actor Govinda at Bageshwar Dham A doctored video showing two unrelated events of Bollywood actor Govinda delivering speech at Swaminarayan Temple in Gujarat and offering puja in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh is being circulated on social media with a false claim that he visited Bageshwar Dham in Madhya Pradesh.The v (Source: BOOM Live)
False: Video shows United States Vice President Kamala Harris saying, "Tomorrow will be today." A doctored video showing United States Vice President Kamala Harris is being shared on social media where she is heard making a faux pas and being incoherent while elaborating on "yesterday is today" during her speech at a rally for abortion rights at Howard University in Washing (Source: BOOM Live)
False: Video of a Muslim man draping a saree for a Hindu woman at her wedding A video is being shared on social media claiming it is the visuals of a Muslim draping a saree to a Hindu woman at her wedding. The post claims the man in the video is Rafiq, a Muslim who is said to be made draping sarees for Hindu women as a profession. Let's verify the claim ma (Source: Factly)
Misleading: Amartya Sen was involved in gross irregularities and land grab during his tenure at visva-Bharati university in West Bengal A post is being widely shared on social media, claiming that Nobel laureate Amartya Sen was involved in gross irregularities and land grabbing during his tenure at Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal. Let's verify the claim made in the post.The archived post can be seen hereC (Source: Factly)
False: 5 Hindus were caught raping a half-burnt dead body in the Sikar district of Rajasthan Referring to an article published by the 'Asianet News Hindi', a post is being shared on social media claiming that five miscreants were caught raping a half-burnt dead body of a woman in the Sikar district of Rajasthan. Ashok Swain, a Professor at Uppsala University, shared the (Source: Factly)
False: Visuals of people trapped under an avalanche in Amaranth A social media post accompanied by a video in which one can see people stuck under snow getting help is being shared on social media. The post claims this occurred during the holy Amarnath Yatra, where hundreds of people were stuck under an avalanche of snow. Let's verify this cl (Source: Factly)
False: Medical drone delivering drugs from Korle Bu to Ridge Hospital crashes in Togo; Authorities were testing the drone - BREAKING NEWS - Ghana Latest News Did a medical drone delivering drugs crash in Togo during tests? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a fake news site masquerading as satire, it is not real.The story originated from an article published by [email protected] on January 6, 2019 titled "Medical drone deli (Source: Lead Stories)
False: Justice Muralidhar being transferred for citing inaction of Delhi Police 29 Feb 2020 4:56 AM GMTHyderabad: Death toll in the Delhi's communal violence has gone upto 42 on Friday, February 28, 2020. After days of violence, the police and paramilitary has finally been able to take control over the situation. 45 companies of paramilitary forces, which in (Source: Newsmeter)
False: McDonald's uses human meat as a filler in their hamburgers. (More archives to similar claims can be found here, here, and here.) We also received a query about the viral claim on our WhatsApp tipline.Are these claims true?: No, the viral claim is false and originates from a satirical website called Huzlers. McDonald's has also clarified t (Source: WebQoof - The Quint)