Fact Check: Dhruv Rathee Exposes Coordinated Fake News and Media Bias

Hello, friends! The last two weeks have been the craziest two weeks of my life. I have learned a lot, experienced a lot,

but one thing that I have learned the most is about our media. To what extent is our media and IT cell's machinery ready to brainwash people? It's not that I didn't know about it before,

I made several videos on it too, but this was the first time I personally experienced things. The things I witnessed on the ground happening around me,

and what I saw in the media reports, I was shocked to see the difference between the two. I think it is important for you to know about this too

Because now I understand how it works, You will also be surprised to see the levels they are willing to go to,

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And hurry up because there is not much time left. Now let's get back to our topic. On 17th October, 2026, I participated in the London protest

which was organised against Gyanesh Kumar and SIR. When I reached there, I was very happy to see the passion of the people. There was a crowd of about 1,000 people.

And that was when I had posted a story only the previous night. Dozens of people were carrying the Indian flag. We sang the national anthem.

Bharat Mata Ki Jai and Vande Matram were the slogans. Bharat Mata Ki Jai! Bharat Mata Ki Jai!

But later when I returned to the hotel and saw the news in the evening, social media was abuzz about something vastly different. People were posting that how this protest was full of Pakistanis.

There were Pakistani flags all around. I thought, when did this happen? I didn't see a single Pakistani flag in the protest.

By the next morning, social media influencers and BJP's official accounts were sharing this. The most viral story was this.

A man came to the protest. They looked up his Instagram account, and shared an Instagram post of him holding the Pakistani flag.

I tried to find his Instagram account. When I checked it, I couldn't find this photo anywhere.

After scrolling through the pages, I found a photo that was used to make this photo.

Actually, this was the original photo. And using AI, this man was shown to be holding a Pakistani flag.

In reality, we learn that he is an Indian citizen. His bio mentions that he's Indian. And he had even shown his Indian passport in an old post.

This is my passport. I am Indian. I have lived in India for 30 years. And I have been living in the UK for 6 years. I grew up in India.

Think about how cunning these people are that they presented an Indian citizen as a Pakistani just to discredit me. This news was first shared by random Twitter trolls.

Then by big influencers like Abhi and Niyu. And even BJP Delhi's official Twitter handle shared this. At this point, I thought it was a mistake.

It wasn't a big deal. But then, the things that came out one after the other, it was unbelievable for me to see.

This second video comes up, which was shared even more widely. In this video, many people can be seen with Pakistani flags.

It was shared by Indian TV journalists. That there were more Pakistanis than Indians in the protest. Influencer Shambhav Sharma wrote,

more Pakistani flags than Indian flags. Once again, I watched the video, And then we found out that this was not the place.

I mean, I know that our protest was in front of Mahatma Gandhi's statue, which is right in front of the UK Parliament. And this was a completely different place.

Later it turns out that this was an old video from 15th August, where the Indian-Pakistani diaspora were celebrating their Independence Day.

And things didn't stop there. BJP Delhi's official Twitter handle, tweeted the photo with the Pakistani flag, ran this video

plus ran another new AI-generated image. In which some people look to be holding the Bangladeshi flag, but this was a 100% fake AI-generated image.

Then I understood that this is a very coordinated, organized attempt to spread fake news. When I saw it on Reddit, I saw one post again and again.

This video from an older protest was being shared in a coordinated way on different subreddits. On Instagram, multiple meme pages were sharing this.

You could see similar tweets all over Twitter, Using Pakistanis and Bangladeshis to attempt regime change in India in the name of democracy.

BJP's national social media in-charge, Priti Gandhi, shares this video. Their random troll accounts tweet that Pakistani flag 5, Indian flag 1. Someone tweets that Indian flag 2, Pakistani flag 48, Bangladeshi flag 36.

Nonsense tweet was being made to spread this one narrative. And cherry on the top, how did the media report this? CNN News 18 ran the headline, 'big exclusive'

Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, outnumbered Indians. Later adds a small line, 'claims BJP overseas leader.' Navbhara Times ran the headline, more Pakistanis than Indians.

BJP leader's big claim, on the Dhru Rathee's London protest[. The last three words were, No proof shared.

The question is, if there was no proof, then why did it run in the headline? Because most people read only the headlines.

As if the media was trying to build a narrative on someone's instruction. Now think for yourself, if a person says that it is raining outside,

and the other person says that it is not raining outside, then what is the media's job here? Will the media run such a headline here?

'It's raining outside', claims the first guy. Or, 'it's not raining outside,' claims the other guy. No, media's role is

to open the window and see if it's actually raining or not. To report the truth and run it as the headline. But they don't do this perhaps because they didn't get the order from above.

Read this report from the Times of India. It says that hundreds of Indian students were waving flags of the Communist Congress and the Indian Workers Association.

Then it's written in a different paragraph that there was a small counter-protest where people were, waving our tricolour flag.

What picture does the reader have in mind? On one side, red flags, the flags of the Congress Party were being waved. And on the other side, the flag was being waved.

The pro-BJP protest. But do you know what the reality was? There were about 1,000 people in our protest.

And the pro-BJP protest running there to counter us, barely had 8 people. You can see the video,

of this uncle with the slogans supporting Modi. They were there to disrupt our protest. British police had taken them away from the protest.

"They are calling the Prime Minister of a nation a criminal, a traitor. How dare they do that?" Embarassingly enough, even after they were caught spreading fake news,

99% of them did nothing. Abhi and Niyu deleted their tweet 24 hours later without apologising. On BJP Delhi's official Twitter handle, this tweet is still there spreading fake news.

You will still get these three tweets of this influencer Shambhav Sharma on Twitter. They are not even that ashamed enough to delete their fake news even after being caught.

I pity those people who still follow these accounts. Open your eyes and see how shamelessly you are being fooled. You are being brainwashed.

Now these people will say in response that I have spread fake news too. I may have made some mistakes in the past But I keep a public record

Go to DhruvRathee.com/corrections I have a track record of my past 2 years of videos In the past 2 years, wherever I have made mistakes in my videos

All those mistakes have been clearly written here They have been publicly displayed Can any other YouTuber, influencer or account supporting BJP

do this and show it? I give you an open challenge Do this openly and show it

You won't have the courage to do it And some people will still say that, there were Pakistani, Bangladeshi in the protest. Believe me, I was there the whole time in the protest.

I didn't see a single Pakistani or Bangladeshi flag. And if you can't believe me, then believe that we sang the national anthem there.

There's video proof too. We even read the Preamble to the constitution there. If you still think that there were some Pakistanis or Bangladeshis there,

then there is no one greater patriot than me. I should get Bharat Ratna for this because even if there were any Pakistanis or Bangladeshis there,

I made them sing the Indian National Anthem. I made them recite the preamble to our constitution. Has any other Indian made Pakistanis and Bangladeshis do this?

Now the question you might be asking is, it's so easy to debunk their fake news, facts are checked by the next day,

through websites like Alt News or Boom, so why do they keep spreading fake news? In reality, the real purpose is not to convince you.

The purpose is to stick two words together in your mind. Let's say there is an uncle who lives in Patna. He doesn't watch a lot of news.

He just watches a few forward posts on WhatsApp all day. He gets 5 minutes to open Instagram or Twitter in a day. And he reads the headlines on TV or newspapers.

From the perspective of a person who doesn't watch too much news, who doesn't analyse these news, only a few handful phrases register with him.

Dhruv Rathee, Pakistani, Bangladeshi,

That's it. A week later, he'll only remember that Dhruv Rathee was involved in a London protest with Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.

Do you understand how clever the game is? The level at which it is being played. And I hadn't seen this for the first time in London.

About a week before that, two more words were stuck with my name. Dhruv Rathee and German. Arnab Goswami had repeated this word on his show repeatedly.

And note carefully what he had said. I had made fun of this too, but to be honest, Arnab Goswami doesn't care about jokes.

His purpose, the instructions that he had received, he fulfilled it quite well. The purpose was to combine these two words.

Search on Google for German YouTuber Dhruv Rathee. The OP India website, BJP's supporters, and other media channels, Republic TV's own website, you will find the headlines.

German Dhruv Rathee. These two words are used everywhere together. In psychology, it is called illusory truth effect.

that if you hear something repeatedly, you start believing that it is true. They have been trying for years,

to associate the word German with my name. But the day they illegally detained me, I consider it illegal kidnapping till this day.

That day, they tried their best to justify what happened to me, by using this word, German. Look at this post, it's still online.

They cite unnamed sources, that the police arrested me, at a 5 star hotel in Gurgaon, having English breakfast and when they asked for my ID, I showed them a German passport.

"Dhruv Rathee said he's a German citizen and currently on tourist visa and the moment he said tourist visa, police arrested him." "Because as per law, any foreign citizen can be arrested."

This post has more than 21,000 likes and more than 700,000 views. The fake label that they tried to stick on me, they made it the justification for the detention.

Now that's a different matter, I didn't expect that I would show my passport out of syllabus. That actually I am an Indian citizen.

So when I showed my passport, that video went viral. And the hard work of these poor IT cell people for the last 3 years was wasted. It was interesting to see how their narrative changed step by step.

When I showed the front page of my passport, they started saying that this can be anyone's passport. That I might be showing my parents' passport.

So then I opened the passport and showed the page inside. The name written on my YouTube channel is exactly the same name on my passport. Then they said that this is AI generated, this is not real.

There are about 900,000 views on such a post till date. Now tell me, how should I answer this? The Delhi police had taken a copy of my passport when I was in detention.

Go and ask them, Amit Shah leads the police, go and ask them if you still don't believe me. It is very interesting to see how these people's narrative changes at every step.

because it's a very coordinated attack. Meaning all these people say the same thing repeatedly and as soon as the situation changes,

so does their narrative. Like in July, these people were saying that I don't come to India. That I won't be joining the protest.

That I make reels from Germany to motivate the students. But don't actually attend it. When I came to India, and reached Bangalore, it was said that

I'd stay in Bangalore only. Apparently the Congress government there were protecting me, so I won't have the courage to come to Delhi.

Some people even posted that I was on a flight back to Germany after being in Bangalore shortly. The trolls post this very confidently.

As if they actually knew the truth. And when I actually came to Delhi on October 9, for the protest on October 10,

they kidnapped me early in the morning. They entered my bedroom and illegally kidnapped me. And then they run the narrative that as a

German citizen, I shouldn't protest in India. And when I was released, a new narrative came out That I haven't come back with my free will.

That I'd be jailed for 7 to 10 years That I won't be able to return. Then, 2 days later, I reach London from Delhi and say

that the next protest will be in London And as soon as my post goes live, the narrative changes immediately

I was called a coward and that I ran away to London. And as soon as people joined me in the protest in London There was an amazing crowd there.

the next narrative was abount the alleged involvement of Pakistanis and Bangladeshis in the protest. Now stop for a second and rewind a little.

How far have we been dragged from the real issue? What were the headlines over the last 10 days? Who was detained?

Who is German? Whose passport is real? Whose flag was in London?

One name was missing among these headlines. Gyanesh Kumar, the reason for all these protests.

Friends, this protest wasn't about me. It was about the man who handles elections in our country, and against whom serious allegations have been filed in the last month.

We have evidence of him facilitating voter fraud. But the media and the IT cell machinery hid the real issue from the headlines.

The biggest advantage of calling me a German, Pakistani coward is that you never see the questions that you should see. Our media is doing the same thing with the Cockroach Janta Party.

After someone discovered the phrase, 'regime change,' then again and again and every time that word is associated with this protest. They don't want people to find out

about the way elections are actually being rigged in our country. How the names of valid voters are being deleted from the roll. The unimaginable scale of election fraud in our country.

Even now, this is the only thing these channels are talking about. About what Abhijeet Dipke is doing, how Saurav and Ashutosh were in jail,

how they were released, everything that happened here. Having the news revolve around the protestors and not the protest. Come, I will tell you some actual updates on this real issue.

Which you should know. Every citizen should know. On 8th October, Pranoy Roy

Publicly shared the West Bengal data on Decoder. This year, the vote share of TMC in the whole of Bengal dropped by about 7 points. But the 25 seats with the most votes deleted,

the swing against TMC was 10.5 points. And the 25 seats with the least votes deleted, showed a swing of only 5.3%.

So the constituency with more names deleted showed nearly double swing. What could be a bigger proof of vote theft? The Bengal Chief Electoral Officer called it misleading and speculative.

He said that of the top 5 seats with the largest vote deletion, TMC won 4 of the 5 seats. And of the ones with the least disruptions, BJP won those.

Pranoy Roy's answer was that merely counting seats doesn't affect it. Swing is equally important, if not mores. Any serious study of election outcomes,

it is essential to focus on the votes that a party wins, and examine the change by the swing,

in votes from one election to another. Friends, I'd like to request you, unfollow all these mainstream channels today.

Which run headlines without verifying it. Unfollw the troll papes, YouTubers, and influencers, who deliberately spread such lies.

And even after being caught, neither do they apologize, nor delete the lie. If we want to bring about a change in the country,

it is very important to understand this brainwashing. It is important to make more people understand this. At the same time I'd like to say that,

follow such pages and such news channels who are working hard to show us the truth. They work hard and even do on-ground journalism.

Like The Red Mic, Pranoy Roy's Decoder, newspapers like Indian Express and The Hindu, News Laundry, The News Minute,

independent journalists like Ravish Kumar, Shyam Meera Singh, and Harsh, who are risking their lives to report. Do you know that in Harsh's hotel room,

Delhi police broke the door to enter. He was even beaten up for staying on the ground and was showing the truth to the public.

"What are 4 Delhi police constables doing outside my room, I am staying at the Park Hotel as a guest." Look at the situation our country is in,

I had to show my passport to prove that I'm India. Saddam had an Instagram account too, he too had to make a video with this passport to show that he's Indian.

But think about the millions, whose names were deleted from the voter list 2026. They have no passport, no followers, no platform.

The names of 130 million voters were struck off based on SIR. Think about it. How many of them were genuine voters.

And next time you see two words together, protest and Pakistani, Dhruv Rathee and German,

ask yourself where is your focus drawn to. And what's being hidden behind it? If you want to know more about SIR,

I sat down with the former Chief Election Commissioner for a detailed podcast, to help you can understand this real issue better. Click here to watch it.

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