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    Home / Archives for Priyanka Jha / Page 16

    Priyanka Jha

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    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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    WhatsApp will be “off” between 11:30 pm-6am? False claim viral using India TV fact-check

    Priyanka Jha7th July 20208th October 2021

    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…
    Politics

    Fake tweet: Sitaram Yechury referring to Chinese President Xi Jinping as his “boss”

    Priyanka Jha24th June 2020

    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…
    Politics

    Old video shared as scores of Indians running to block illegal Chinese construction along LAC

    Priyanka Jha23rd June 2020

    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…
    NewsPolitics

    False media reports claim Jyotiraditya Scindia removed ‘BJP’ from his Twitter bio

    Priyanka Jha9th June 20209th June 2020

    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…
    NewsSociety

    Video from Gujarat shared as upper caste men in UP assault Dalit woman for drawing water from well

    Priyanka Jha9th June 20206th October 2020

    A disturbing video of three men brutally assaulting a woman with sticks and pulling her by her hair was shared on social media. A message in Tamil claims that upper-castes…
    Media analysisNews

    PIB’s 3 out of 4 ‘fact-checks’ on deaths in Shramik trains are unsubstantiated

    Priyanka Jha6th June 20206th June 2020

    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…
    Media analysisReligion

    Gopalganj case: OpIndia blames victim’s father, accuses him of lying to give itself a clean chit

    Priyanka Jha25th May 202025th May 2020

    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….
    Politics

    Photos of Rahul Gandhi’s interaction with migrant workers shared with false claim

    Priyanka Jha21st May 2020

    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…
    Media analysisReligion

    Gopalganj case: Boy drowns in river, OpIndia claims he was sacrificed in a mosque

    Priyanka Jha & Pratik Sinha17th May 202018th May 2020

    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…
    Politics

    Old images falsely shared as female BJP politician consumes alcohol after liquor shops opened

    Priyanka Jha13th May 202013th May 2020

    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…

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