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    Priyanka Jha

    About the Author

    She specializes in information verification, examining mis/disinformation, social media monitoring and platform accountability. Her aim is to make the internet a safer place and enable people to become informed social media users. She has been a part of Alt News since 2018.

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    Politics

    Amit Malviya shares Bangladesh candle-light vigil video as R G Kar protest in Kolkata

    Priyanka Jha6th September 2024

    A video recorded by a drone is circulating on social media purportedly depicting a protest demanding justice for the August 9 rape and murder at Kolkata’s R G Kar Hospital….
    Politics

    Photo shared in connection with assault on elderly man in Bijnor is not of accused Abhinav Singh

    Priyanka Jha1st August 2024

    A CCTV clip from Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, has surfaced recently, which depicts a man slapping an elderly person multiple times and misbehaving with an elderly woman who tries to intervene. …
    Politics

    Atishi did not announce stopping of electricity subsidy in Delhi; edited video shared falsely

    Priyanka Jha28th May 202428th May 2024

    A video of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi is being circulated on social media against the backdrop of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. In the 34-second video, Atishi is…
    FeaturedReligion

    From Kajal Shingala to ‘Hindusthani’: The rise of the female face of Hindutva hate politics

    Priyanka Jha10th September 2023

    This article uses as its source Kajal Shingala aka Hindusthani’s Facebook/Twitter activities, videos posted on her YouTube channel and other platforms and our telephonic conversation with her. On August 8,…
    Religion

    School-goers clash with knives in Delhi, videos viral with false communal claim

    Priyanka Jha31st March 202331st March 2023

    A number of videos featuring school-going children are being shared on social media. In the first clip, a group of boys dressed in school uniform are seen fighting near an…
    Society

    Yet another scripted video viral with claims of burqa being used for child kidnapping

    Priyanka Jha20th March 202320th March 2023

    By the end of 2022, rumours of child kidnapping had become so widespread that state authorities had to intervene and issue warnings to the common people. Innumerable unrelated and scripted…
    Religion

    ‘When will you kill Muslims & Christians?’: At Jantar Mantar, Hindutva leaders call for massacre of minorities

    Priyanka Jha13th February 202313th February 2023

    On February 5, 2023, speakers at two events held at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar openly called for the slaughter of Muslims and Christians. The first programme, the ‘Sanatan Dharma Sansad’, was…
    Compilation

    Roundup 2022: How parties, leaders, media & influencers amplified misinfo this year

    Kinjal & Priyanka Jha3rd January 2023

    Looking through the prism of news headlines, the Russia-Ukraine conflict and elections in several Indian states were the two major events of 2022. These incidents found wide coverage in mainstream…
    Religion

    No, Hindu boys did not dance in burqa in Mangalore college; false claim viral on social media

    Priyanka Jha12th December 2022

    Twitter user @CrimeReportInd1 claimed in a recent tweet that Hindu students at St. Joseph’s Engineering College in Mangalore mocked Muslims by dancing to Bollywood item song ‘Fevicol Se’ while wearing…
    CompilationPolitics

    Nation TV: A misinformation factory on YouTube targeting BJP with false and outrageous claims

    Priyanka Jha2nd December 20222nd December 2022

    There are several channels on YouTube known to peddle political propaganda, whether in support of the government or against it. In the past, Alt News has intimated the video platform…

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