Kinjal Parmar holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology. However, her keen interest in journalism, drove her to pursue journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. At Alt News since 2019, she focuses on authentication of information which includes visual verification, media misreports, examining mis/disinformation across social media. She is the lead video producer at Alt News and manages social media accounts for the organization.
Soon after India launched Operation Sindoor in the early hours of May 7, unverified visuals of missiles and aircraft were viral on social media with claims that these depicted the…
The story uses only screenshots and not the actual video in view of the graphic nature of the footage. A video from Bangladesh has been doing the rounds on social…
A few videos of Tamil Nadu’s Vellore Institute of Technology campus are being shared on social media in which a group of people are seen entering the college campus in…
The story uses only screenshots and not the actual video in view of its graphic nature. A 1 minute 31 second video, in which two people are hung upside down…
After the BJP recently returned to power in Delhi asaembly after 27 years, the party’s newly elected MLA from Shalimar Bagh Rekha Gupta took oath as the chief minister of…
This story uses screenshots and not actual tweets in view of the graphic nature of the video being fact-checked. The political unrest that erupted in Bangladesh following the student protests…
The BJP on July 27 and 28 held a chief ministers’ meet in Delhi. A video from this event is being widely circulating on social media, featuring several BJP leaders…
A video of former editor-in-chief of Zee News Sudhir Chaudhary is being shared widely on social media platforms. In the clip, Chaudhury remarks that protesters in Telangana removed the Ashok…
Over the past month and a half, social media has been flooded with claims related to the Israel-Hamas conflict. Alt News has constantly been monitoring and fact-checking them. The latest…
A 45-second video clip is being shared widely on social media where a group of people can be seen crouched on the street looking for something. Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani…