{"id":6228,"date":"2017-11-04T10:59:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T05:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=6228"},"modified":"2017-11-04T10:59:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T05:29:25","slug":"alt-news-investigation-upcoming-fake-news-site-coveragetimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/alt-news-investigation-upcoming-fake-news-site-coveragetimes\/","title":{"rendered":"An Alt News investigation into an upcoming fake news site – CoverageTimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coveragetimes.com is a ‘news website’ that started just a few months ago and is already ranked in the top 15000 websites in India. In terms of their reach, they are not as popular as the other fake news sites like Hindutva.info<\/a>, DainikBharat.org<\/a>, PostCard.News<\/a>, InsistPost.com<\/a> etc that Alt News has investigated in the past. However, the fake news that this website pushes is toxic enough that we decided to investigate this website.<\/p>\n

Firstly, let us look at some of the fake stories that this website has pushed.<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> Just before Diwali, Supreme Court had banned the sale of Crackers in Delhi and the judgement in this case was passed by Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri. A story<\/a> titled “\u091c\u093f\u0938\u0928\u0947 \u092a\u091f\u093e\u0916\u094b \u092a\u0930 \u092c\u0948\u0928 \u0932\u0917\u093e\u092f\u093e \u0939\u0948 \u0935\u094b \u091c\u091c \u0926\u0947\u0916 \u0932\u094b \u0914\u0930 \u0938\u092e\u091d \u091c\u093e\u0913 (Translation: Here’s the Judge who banned crackers, make your own judgements now)<\/em>” claims that the person putting Gulal on Sonia Gandhi’s face is Justice Sikri.<\/p>\n

\"CoverageTimes\"<\/p>\n

In reality, this person in the above picture is a Congress leader called KP Singh Deo. Multiple pictures of Justice Sikri are available on the Internet and it is very easy to ascertain that the person in the picture above is not him.<\/p>\n

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Such an article can only be a product of malice, one that is trying to malign a Supreme Court Justice.<\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> A story<\/a> titled “\u0939\u0948\u0930\u093e\u0928 \u0915\u0930 \u0926\u0947\u0917\u093e \u092f\u0947 \u0935\u0940\u0921\u093f\u092f\u094b, \u0907\u0902\u0926\u093f\u0930\u093e \u0917\u093e\u0901\u0927\u0940 \u0915\u0947 \u0926\u094b \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u092c\u0932\u094d\u0915\u093f \u0924\u0940\u0928 \u092c\u0947\u091f\u0947 \u0925\u0947 \u091c\u093f\u0928\u092e\u0947 \u0938\u0947 \u090f\u0915 \u0915\u0947 \u092c\u093e\u0930\u0947 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092a\u0942\u0930\u0940 \u0926\u0941\u0928\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0938\u0947 \u091b\u0941\u092a\u093e\u092f\u0940 \u092f\u0947 \u0938\u091a\u094d\u091a\u093e\u0908 (Translation: You’ll be shocked to know that Indira Gandhi has not two but three sons, with the third son’s reality having been hidden from the world)<\/em>” claims that Amitabh Bachchan is Indira Gandhi’s third son with much conviction. Does this even need a fact-check?<\/p>\n

3.<\/strong> A story<\/a> titled “14 \u0938\u093e\u0932 \u0915\u0940 \u0930\u094b\u0939\u093f\u0902\u0917\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0932\u095c\u0915\u0940 \u091c\u093f\u0938\u0915\u0947 \u092a\u0924\u093f \u0915\u0947 18 \u092c\u091a\u094d\u091a\u0947, \u0915\u094d\u092f\u093e \u0906\u092a \u0910\u0938\u0947 \u0936\u0930\u0923\u093e\u0930\u094d\u0925\u0940 \u0915\u094b \u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092c\u0938\u093e\u0928\u093e \u091a\u093e\u0939\u0924\u0947 \u0939\u094b? (Translation: A 14 year Rohingya girl who has 18 kids, would you want her as a refugee in India?<\/em>” shows the picture of a young girl holding a baby and claims that she has 18 kids. Goes on to ask whether you’d want such a refugee in India.<\/p>\n

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This is actually a passing frame from a BBC Video. The BBC Video doesn’t give any information about this girl whatsoever and it is just a passing shot in the video. The story about this girl was first fabricated by a Twitter account called Ravinder Sangwan<\/a>. CoverageTimes made that into an article. THe BBC Video can be seen below.<\/p>\n

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