Alt News published an article titled, “Major Gaurav Arya circulates a fake image as evidence of lathi-charge by West Bengal Police” yesterday. In response to that article, OpIndia has now…
MHA Annual Report fiasco: Photographer claims copyright violation in an email to Alt News
“If it’s a mistake by the ministry, we will apologise,” is what Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi reportedly said upon being informed about the gaffe in the annual report released by…
Major Gaurav Arya circulates a fake image as evidence of lathi-charge by West Bengal Police
Major Gaurav Arya, Republic TV’s Defence and Strategy advisor, has fallen for a fake viral image. Via his Twitter account, Gaurav Arya circulated the picture of a bloodied man claiming…
Irony alert! Coal Ministry plagiarises pic from Amnesty report on human rights violation by Coal India
Even before the dust has settled over the use of Spain Morocco border to showcase floodlighting along the India Pakistan border, another shocking case of copyright violation comes to light….
TrueIndology or TrueFraudology – Part 3 – Exposing more fakery and a rebuttal
Over the course of a 2-part article, Alt News documented 15 cases where the TrueIndology twitter account has fabricated history via tools such as photo-shop, fake/misleading pictures and a fertile…
Alt News Impact: Home Ministry orders inquiry into use of Spain-Morocco border picture in MHA report
Within hours of an Alt News exposé showing how the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) annual report is using a picture of Spain-Morocco border to show Indian border floodlighting, officials…
Home Ministry annual report uses picture of Spain-Morocco border to show Indian border floodlighting
The headline was striking, the picture was spectacular and the achievement was presented as incredible. “मोदी सरकार ने बॉर्डर पर जो काम किया है वो देखोगे तो गर्व भी होगा…
Nirmala Sitharaman vs Sambit Patra – How to respond when one falls prey to fake news
The industry of fake news has become so wide-spread that multiple BJP ministers and leaders are regularly falling prey to it. In the last month, BJP MP Paresh Rawal has…
TrueIndology or TrueFraudology – Part 2 – A goldmine of fictitious historical claims
In response to the recent Alt News article on fictitious claims about history put out on social media by an anonymous Twitter handle, @TrueIndology, we had a few of its…
TrueIndology or TrueFraudology – debunking a goldmine of fictitious historical claims
Alt News has stumbled upon a goldmine of fictitious historical claims. History is being re-written on social media, right here in front of our eyes. We found that a large…