Rishi Bagree describes himself on Twitter as ‘an ordinary tax paying citizen’. His 99,000 followers on the social media platform include top functionaries of the ruling party and the Central government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. That moment when you finally meet your favorite Leader in person , and he is as awesome as you imagined . pic.twitter.com/ZWyYWUu7Y1 — Rishi Bagree 🇮🇳 (@rishibagree) April 29, 2018 Bagree has been caught spreading misinformation on multiple occasions. Alt News has chronicled some of these instances. In July 2017, Rishi Bagree shared an image of a newspaper article which was headlined, ‘Hindu girl stabbed to death by Muslim man’. He also ‘condemned firebrand activists’ for not raising their voice over this issue. Times of India clarified via a tweet that this is a distorted headline, and added that legal action would be pursued. The headline of our original story (pic) was distorted by a mischief monger using photoshop. Our legal team will take action. pic.twitter.com/lY0EweG7NJ — Times of India (@timesofindia) July 8, 2017 After demonetisation was announced on November 8, 2016, Bagree was among those who claimed that the new notes of 2000 denomination will be embedded with nano GPS chips, with the objective of tracking illegally hoarded cash. This was a ludicrous claim, as was confirmed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) itself when it dismissed this rumour in a press conference in November 2016. Journalist Barkha Dutt is despised and routinely maligned by the right-wing ecosystem on social media. This includes Rishi Bagree who claimed in a tweet of April 2015 that Dutt had become the third wife of Haseeb Drabu who is supposedly the chairman of ‘Jammu Kashmir bank’. .@ndtv is a channel for Terrorists,prostitutes and rapists… so the #Presstitutes shouldnt #GetSurprised us at all pic.twitter.com/7Ri8Csu2XC — Rishi Bagree 🇮🇳 (@rishibagree) April 8, 2015 Dutt herself had clarified that these are rumours which have been circulating on social media and are far from the truth. On September 10, 2018, the opposition parties declared a Bharat bandh to protest rising fuel prices. Bagree tweeted a photograph which showed a damaged school bus, claiming that it is the handiwork of “Congress goons targeting innocent school children, destroying public property & trying to instill fear in citizens for cheap political gains…” Congress Goons targeting innocent school children, destroying public property & trying to instill fear in citizens for cheap political gains is really deplorable #BharatBandh pic.twitter.com/DllTx6hXDu — Rishi Bagree 🇮🇳 (@rishibagree) September 10, 2018 The photograph posted by Bagree was of a bus belonging to Sanskriti school at Undri in Pune. It had been damaged by miscreants the day before i.e September 9 and had nothing to do with Bharat bandh protests. This was confirmed to Alt News by the school management. Kerala was ravaged by floods in August 2018. Bagree, on August 13, posted a set of pictures on his Twitter account with the claim that these are RSS workers engaged in flood relief work in the state. Bahree claimed that 20,000 RSS workers are active in Kerala. It turned out that the photos posted by him were not from Kerala. They were images from Gujarat when floods had hit the northern part of the state in 2017. SM Hoax Slayer had found identical images being circulated of RSS workers providing aid during Gujarat flood in August 2017. Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee passed away at the AIIMS hospital in New Delhi on August 16. Amid the outpouring of grief and condolence, a photograph of PM Modi surrounded by medical personnel had begun to circulate on social media, which showed a smiling PM Modi. The claim was that the photograph was taken during Modi’s visit to AIIMS before Vajpayee breathed his last. Rishi Bagree jumped to the Prime Minister’s defence, stating that the photograph in question was taken in 2016. This picture dates back to April 10, 2016. where Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Kollam District Hospital to meet the victims of Paravur Puttingal temple accident, in Kerala https://t.co/f7jz5DWnLb — Rishi Bagree 🇮🇳 (@rishibagree) August 17, 2018 Bagree’s claim was false. The photograph was not of 2016 but was indeed from AIIMS when PM Modi paid a visit to inquire about Vajpayee’s health. Notwithstanding the fact that there was nothing in the photograph to suggest lack of compassion on the part of PM Modi, Bagree saw it fit to defend him by making a false claim. This Nagpur Congress neta snatched milk from poor Farmers & spilled it on road. He also abused & threatened police men when they try to stop him” tweeted Rishi Bagree.