Articles by Sanjog Shiwakoti

• Photo of a kneeling Joe Biden circulating on social media with a false claim An image of US President-elect Joe Biden kneeling in front of a child has been widely shared by Nepa... Read More
• Ex-minister Baskota overstates number of Covid testing labs Former minister Gokul Baskota on Monday claimed tests for Covid-19 are being conducted in around 97 ... Read More
• Purported government text message about snap curfew was a hoax In the wee hours of October 19, the cell phones of many Nepalis beeped with WhatsApp and SMS text me... Read More
• Popular YouTube interview on COVID-19 full of false, misleading claims Surajeet Dutta, who was identified by the interviewer as a social activist, made several false and m... Read More
• Memes attribute Russian President Putin to statements that weren’t his It was Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko who said medical workers and teachers would be admin... Read More
• Zee News editor-in-chief’s comments on Sarita Giri expulsion erroneous India's Zee News editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary's claim that the Nepal government had a role in sa... Read More
• PM’s claims about depression and turmeric partially true but he’s incorrect about WHO guidelines on COVID-19 deaths verification PM Oli drew widespread criticism from the public when he told the parliament on June 12 that turmeri... Read More
• Ex-PM Khanal grossly exaggerates Nepal’s hydropower generation potential Ruling NCP leader and former prime minister Jhalanath Khanal citing unnamed experts recently claimed... Read More
• Viral video clips involving Sujata Koirala were manipulated to create controversy Two video clips are circulating on social media with claims that Nepali Congress leader Sujata Koira... Read More
• Video clip of anti-India demonstration being circulated on social media is six months old Last November, protests erupted in Nepal after India published a new political map by including Kala... Read More
• 5-year-old India toilet photo is circulating as photo of Bharatpur coronavirus hospital toilet South Asia Check did a reverse image search on Google and found that the image is more than five yea... Read More
• COVID-19: ‘TU psychologist’ makes several false claims in a popular Youtube interview South Asia Check fact-checked eight false claims about viruses including COVID-19 made in an intervi... Read More
• Binod Chaudhary wrongly claims internet in Nepal is South Asia’s priciest Industrialist Binod Chaudhary recently said: "The internet price in Nepal is currently the most expe... Read More
• Deputy speaker Tumbahangphe is still a member Nepal Communist Party Shiva Maya Tumbahangphe’s resignation from the Nepal Communist Party upon her election to deputy s... Read More
• NBA chief incorrect about Sri Lanka’s bank lending rate President of Nepal Bankers Association Bhuvan Kumar Dahal in a television interview claimed that the... Read More