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An Instagram post says journalist Divya Srivastava lost her job within hours of pressing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for answers. The recorded exchange is real and Srivastava later alleged harassment, but contemporaneous reporting says she denied the viral firing claim; available evidence does not establish that she was dismissed or that any employment…

Open Post: Divya Srivastava pressed Yogi Adityanath for answers; viral claim that she was fired remains unestablished

In a July 2026 reel, educator Neetu Singh tells students that Gandhi’s resistance to British rule required courage and rebukes “WhatsApp University” learning. Archival records support the reality of colonial repression and Gandhi’s arrests, but her statement that people then had “no rights” is an over-broad contrast with today’s constitutional fundamental-rights framework; the clip also…

Neetu Singh’s ‘WhatsApp University’ rebuke invokes Gandhi’s resistance to British rule — but simplifies colonial rights
Open Post: Neetu Singh’s ‘WhatsApp University’ rebuke invokes Gandhi’s resistance to British rule — but simplifies colonial rights

A viral excerpt is authentic, but the full 20 September 2025 NDTV interview shows Rekha Gupta was sarcastically rejecting an EVM-hacking allegation, not admitting that the BJP or ABVP manipulated voting machines. The case demonstrates a specific misinformation mechanism: a genuine political clip can become substantively false when its immediate continuation is removed; it does…

Open Post: Context-stripped Rekha Gupta EVM clip reverses her meaning; it is not evidence of a hacking admission

The 2G record is not resolved by a single “scam” or “no scam” verdict. The 2017 criminal acquittals remain operative, while the Supreme Court separately held the 2008 licence-allocation process illegal and quashed it; the ₹1.76-lakh-crore figure was a presumptive audit estimate, not proven stolen cash. Keeping those findings distinct is essential to understanding what…

Open Post: The 2G record contains both criminal acquittals and a Supreme Court finding that the 2008 licences were illegal

Police action during the 10 August 2026 Ranchi student march was real, but BJP Rajasthan’s 11 August reel used footage from a 22 July protest in Patna and presented it as Jharkhand. Other unrelated clips were also attached to the agitation, showing a broader recycled-video problem; the evidence does not establish a coordinated campaign or…

Open Post: Jharkhand protest misinformation reused unrelated footage; BJP Rajasthan shared a Patna clip as Ranchi police action

In ANI's 16 April 2014 interview, Narendra Modi said that if allegations against him over the 2002 Gujarat riots were proven he should face exemplary punishment rather than be forgiven through apology; earlier in the same interview he separately proposed fast-track courts for criminal cases against MPs and MLAs. A 2026 reel merges those exchanges…

Open Post: Modi’s 2014 ANI interview separated punishment for proven guilt from decriminalising politics; viral reel merges the two

Saayoni Ghosh did leave the TMC camp and align with the BJP-led NDA, but the evidence identifies her as joining the NCPI bloc rather than formally becoming a BJP member. That distinction later became part of a Lok Sabha/Supreme Court anti-defection dispute, while the reel also overstates a separate 2015 Shivling controversy by treating disputed…

Open Post: Saayoni Ghosh joined NCPI, not BJP; that distinction now matters in a live defection dispute

This draft duplicates published IndiaFiles Post 85641, which already archives the same @its_____your_____khushi reel and the April 2026 Yogi Adityanath slogan controversy. Reprocessing confirms a real initial misattribution to Swami Vivekananda followed by a near-immediate reference to Netaji; the durable issue is selective clipping, not a separate publishable event.

Open Post: Duplicate draft: Yogi Adityanath’s 2026 slogan-attribution controversy is already documented

A viral reel reused authentic footage of Gurpreet Singh Bhullar with fabricated speech claiming he and other officers resigned over Satluj. The film takedown and Bhullar’s transfer were real, but no evidence connects them as the reel claims; his September posting as Border Range IGP confirms he remained in Punjab Police. The case shows how…

Open Post: Authentic police footage carried a fabricated Bhullar resignation; he remained in service