After Operation Sindoor, Pakistan floods social media with misinformation
New Delhi: As Indian armed forces successfully struck 9 high-value terror targets across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) under 'Operation Sindoor', a barrage of misinformation emerged from Pakistani media outlets and government-affiliated sources, attempting to distort the narrative of India's counterterrorism operation.
Multiple Pakistani government-linked media houses and social media accounts began circulating unverified and misleading claims in the hours following the surgical strikes.
Many of these claims were quickly flagged as fake by independent analysts and India's official fact-checking mechanisms.
Among the most prominent falsehoods was the claim that Pakistan had responded with missile strikes on 15 locations within Indian territory.
Several other posts falsely alleged that the Pakistan Air Force had targeted the Srinagar Airbase, an Indian Army Brigade Headquarters had been destroyed and that an Indian Rafale jet had been shot down near Bahawalpur.
These claims were aggressively pushed on X, especially by accounts with substantial followings tied to Pakistan's military media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).
However, neither visual nor satellite evidence was provided to corroborate any of these claims. Official fact-checks revealed that many of the visuals used to support the misinformation were not only unrelated but also outdated.
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