The trend of using fake images to showcase development continues. Just yesterday, we wrote about how Union Minister Piyush Goyal used a 8 year old image of unknown origins to…
“Thanks to many who pointed issues with earlier image. While we illuminate streets, social media helps illuminate facts, helping us improve.“, tweeted Power Minister Piyush Goyal after deleting a tweet…
In an article titled, “Swarajya magazine and Jaideep Mazumdar spread falsehood about Suhrawardy Avenue in Kolkata“, Alt News had exposed how Swarajya had pushed out false information regarding a road…
“Terrorist ploy. Clips of rail-road were removed.” Within an hour after the Muzaffarnagar train accident, scores of conspiracy theories started to float on social media. While some were speculative, others…
There are three people. Person A, Person B and you yourself. Person A somehow manages to get the login details of your email account, i.e. username and password, and writes…
“My Twitter account got hacked” is the new “The dog ate my homework”. Social media accounts have a habit of getting hacked just before a controversial post. In some cases,…
A message that warns people against the use of the paracetamol P/500 has resurfaced on social media. The text of the hoax states, “URGENT WARNING! Be careful not to take…
Yesterday, at the end of Shashi Tharoor’s press conference in which he answered questions about the newly-formed All India Professionals’ Congress, four Republic TV correspondents chased Shashi Tharoor from the…
A video of a couple who were stripped, thrashed and paraded around naked is being currently circulated as a video of caste violence in Gujarat. This same video is also…
Overworked or lazy? While glorifying achievements or talking about disasters, fake pictures which are not remotely representative of an event have been repeatedly used to portray events. From media outlets…
