A local dispute in Kayamkulam was quickly interpreted on social media as an attack on a man dressed as Maveli by a Muslim shopkeeper. While...
A family of four was murdered in Rangpur, Bangladesh. Before the investigation could establish what happened, social media had recast the crime as a ‘Hindu...
Onam has long been a festival that brings Malayalis together, cutting across religion, caste and community. But over the past few years, social media has...
BJP just handed its digital operations to five new faces — and their X archives are already talking. From a debunked "spitting jihad" claim to...
Viral videos shared on social media platforms claimed to show Muslim children in India waving Pakistan’s national flag on August 15. We traced the origins...
A video of a private trainer aircraft incident in Maharashtra is being falsely shared as an Indian Air Force crash. OBC traced the viral footage...
A dark-web actor claims to have 8 lakh TCS employee records stolen from an Azure tenant. OBC traced the listing, examined a sample of 6,000...
They don't hack WhatsApp—they hack people. This investigation uncovers how attackers use publicly shared invite links and psychological intimidation to take over abandoned WhatsApp groups,...
Do US patents really certify the medicinal value of cow urine? After a BJP MP invoked patent numbers on the floor of Parliament, Offbeat Concerns...
Even after the CJP protest ended, misinformation hasn't. OBC debunks two viral claims—a recycled JNU video falsely linked to the protest and an AI-generated image...
‘Pile of condoms at the protest site’-A decade after similar claims targeted JNU students, the same old smear is back—this time against CJP protesters. OBC...
The CJP protest triumphed not only in demanding accountability but also in defeating the false narratives that sought to undermine it.
