DHAKA, Sept 23, 2025 (BSS) - Fact-checking body Rumor Scanner has detected a misleading campaign on social media using an old photo of the Home Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury.

The Rumor Scanner fact-checking team confirmed that the claim of a recent meeting between the Home Adviser and Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader is false. The viral photo being circulated is actually old, taken during a meeting last year. 

According to the Rumor Scanner investigation team, although it was claimed that Home Affairs Adviser recently met GM Quader, the photo is in fact from September 22, 2024.

Rumor Scanner further reported that since last year, there has been an increasing trend of fake news targeting Bangladesh, spread by some Indian media outlets, social media accounts operated from India, as well as several local Facebook accounts. 

These misleading campaigns often involve disinformation against the interim government and political groups participating in the 2024 movement.

Bangladesh's fact-checking organization Rumor Scanner has already identified hundreds of such pieces of misinformation circulating on the internet.