Social media giant Facebook has repeatedly come under the scanner after multiple reports of the company evading responsibility for hateful content and misinformation thriving on the platform. A Buzzfeed report from last month revealed that Facebook “ignored or was slow to act on evidence that fake accounts on its platform have been undermining elections and political affairs around the world.” This revelation was made just days after an investigative report by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) said that Facebook’s top public policy executive in India, Ankhi Das, supported Prime Minister Modi and ‘disparaged’ opposition parties. An earlier WSJ piece had disclosed that Das blocked applying Facebook’s hate speech rules to “Hindu nationalist individuals and groups flagged internally for promoting or participating in violence.” Hints of preferential treatment to the ruling BJP were also discovered last year when, right before the Lok Sabha elections, Facebook took down thousands of pages and accounts for “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” but did not name BJP-linked pages with much higher follower count. Facebook has a rampant misinformation problem. False news on the platform is believed to be true by regular users who, when emotionally triggered, amplify these claims. Misleading news or outright lies are pushed for several reasons, the most popular being political one-upmanship. But Facebook refrains from fact-checking political speech which it considers “most scrutinised” by the media. Facebook relies on independent third-party fact-checkers worldwide — eight in India — to “reduce the spread of false news and other types of viral misinformation, like memes or manipulated photos and videos.” Alt News analysed the reports published by Facebook’s Indian fact-checking partners in the past year. We observed that between August 2019 to August 2020, barring two outlets, none highlighted individuals or organisations that are arguably the most frequent sources of misinformation. Facebook has eight fact-checking partners in India namely — Agence France-Presse (AFP), Boomlive, The Quint, India Today, Factly, FactCresendo, Newsmobile and Vishvas News. Alt News has picked five sources of misinformation that come out on top as per our reports — BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra, Pakistani Canadian author Tarek Fatah, Sudarshan News or its editor-in-chief Suresh Chavhanke and OpIndia. We analysed their posts carrying misinformation against fact-check stories published by Facebook’s fact-checking partners between August 2019 to August 2020. This was also compared with stories on Alt News. In our analysis, we found that apart from Boomlive and The Quint, others have either not published reports or published very few reports identifying any of the five sources of misinformation. It is noteworthy that not all false claims by the selected individuals or organisations are made on Facebook. However, since all of them are highly influential in the social media ecosystem, their posts are picked up and amplified across platforms including Facebook. Misinformation is mirrored identically or in form of screenshots, thus demands scrutiny. But content posted by politicians is not eligible for review by third-party fact-checkers, as per Facebook’s policy. For instance, last year Amit Malviya had shared a video of a protest rally against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Lucknow, where he claimed ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans were raised. This was false. The protesters were chanting ‘Kashif Saab Zindabad’ in relation to AIMIM leader Kashif Ahmad who led the rally. The only Facebook fact-checking partner that picked up the story failed to mention Malviya in the report. Sambit Patra has also been found misquoting individuals. His tweet mocking Rahul Gandhi talking about red and green COVID zones used a clipped video of the Congress leader. The video was then amplified by others on social media yet most fact-checking partners of Facebook did not deem it worthy of a story. It may be pointed out here that nearly every political party or its supporters has been found promoting disinformation but those associated with the BJP unequivocally have an upper hand in terms of volume. Members or supporters of opposition parties like Congress or AAP did not make the cut to feature in our analysis for the simple reason that they promoted fewer false claims in the chosen time frame. Furthermore, several other names worthy of mention — Madhu Kishwar, Rishi Bagree, Prashant Patel Umrao, Sanjay Dixit and Gaurav Pradhan among others — are not a part of this analysis based on volume and impact of content.