March was a busy month for the fake news industry with fake quotes circulating by the dozen, communally provocative content that went viral on social media and hilarious bloopers by…
Union minister, BJP MPs and MLAs outrage over arrest of Postcard News founder
“Shame on the state government led by @siddaramaiah which is behaving in dictatorial terms in arresting @mvmeet. Ensure to follow the true democratic spirit in fighting us rather than doing a…
Founder of fake news website PostCard News arrested
Peddling communally sensitive rumours and fake news cannot be without consequences. Karnataka police has arrested Postcard News founder Mahesh Vikram Hegde under sections 153A, 295A and 120B of IPC. BJP…
Zee News, OpIndia and Postcard News publish a satire from Navbharat Times as actual news
Guess what is common between Zee News, OpIndia and Postcard News? They have all fallen for a hilarious satire and published it as real news. Read on… On the occasion…
FIR filed against admin of fake news site Postcard News for an alleged derogatory post
An FIR has been lodged against the admins of Postcard news for derogatory comments allegedly made against three women warriors of Kannada history on facebook pages run by them. It…
How do fake news sites like Postcard News flourish? Who provides a helping hand?
Fake news sites do not exist in a vacuum. They need an ecosystem around them that encourages and actively promotes them. Postcard News is one such site that has been…
Postcard News: Mass producing fake news
On 18th May 2015, Twitter handle of postcard.news tweeted the picture of two young children claiming that they were Balochs who were being killed and brutalised. In reality, this image…
BJP Asansol IT Incharge, PostCard News spreading fake video in order to create communal discord in Bengal
For the advancement of right-wing forces in Bengal, there’s been a continuous and deliberate attempt to spread fake images/videos to project that Bengal is being taken over by Muslims. Recently,…
Right-wing website Postcard News accused of issuing threats to fellow right-wingers who questioned them over porn advertisements
Postcard News is in a controversy again. The rightwing portal, set up around a year ago by Vivek Shetty regularly features “news” that is in line with the nationalist agenda….
Sri Kalleshwara Swamy’s chariot set afire: Arson falsely communalized, portrayed by BJP as ‘attack on Hindus’
A video of Sri Kalleshwara Swamy’s chariot, situated in Nitturpur village under the Gubbi police station area of Tumkur district of Karnataka, set ablaze, is viral on social media. Onlookers…