New Delhi, March 13 -- With things heating up in West Asia, the Indian government is basically telling everyone to take a deep breath and stop hitting the forward button on every dramatic war clip that lands in their inbox.

Here's the deal. A huge chunk of those terrifying videos and photos flooding your WhatsApp groups and social media feeds aren't what they claim to be. A lot of them are recycled clips from years ago, chopped-up footage taken completely out of context, or stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with the current situation. Some have even been doctored digitally or slapped with misleading captions to make them look like breaking news from the conflict zone. And all of this is doing exactly one thing, scaring people for n...