Alt News has received multiple requests to fact-check a one-minute video on WhatsApp (+917600011160) and on our official Android application. The video is part of an India TV broadcast where the anchor can be heard saying in Hindi, “This message... Read More
Author - Priyanka Jha
A purported tweet of Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury is doing the rounds on social media. It shows Yechury referring to Communist-ruled China’s president Xi Jinping as his “boss”. The alleged tweet... Read More
A video of scores of people running down elevated land has been shared claiming that these are hundreds of Indians rushing to block “illegal” Chinese construction along the border with India. Alexandre Krauss, who identifies himself as... Read More
A section of the media claimed that BJP leader and former union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has removed ‘BJP’ from his Twitter account and written ‘public servant’ and ‘cricket enthusiast’. Some of the media... Read More
A disturbing video of three men brutally assaulting a woman with sticks and pulling her by her hair was shared by Akali Dal member Manjinder S Sirsa. He wrote (archive), ” I don’t know if the mistreatment of the Dalit woman is due to water... Read More
Recently, the fact-checking wing of Press Information Bureau (PIB) posted multiple tweets declaring news reports on deaths of migrant workers in Shramik trains as false. PIB claimed that the deceased persons were either suffering from pre-existing... Read More
In an article published on May 9, OpIndia claimed that a 15-year-old boy Rohit was sacrificed in a mosque in Bihar’s Gopalganj. Our investigation found that the story was false. Gopalganj police has also filed an FIR against the outlet for... Read More
On May 16, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi met a few migrant labourers near Delhi’s Sukhdev Vihar flyover. According to media reports, he interacted with them and arranged for their travel. Soon after, two images from the interaction... Read More
In an article published on May 9, right-wing propaganda website OpIndia claimed that a mosque sacrificed a Hindu boy in Bihar’s Gopalganj. “A new mosque had been built in the village and it is being alleged that there was a belief that if a... Read More
India has been under a lockdown since March 24, imposed to tackle the spread of coronavirus. On May 4, the government relaxed some norms and permitted the sale of liquor with certain restrictions. In this backdrop, two photographs of women in saffron... Read More