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Misinformation by Indian mainstream media – Top stories 2018
2018 marked yet another year when confidence and trust in mainstream media took a hit. There were a number of instances where top news organisations ended up disseminating misinformation, wittingly…
October round-up: Sabarimala becomes focus of misinformation
October was a busy month at Alt News, with a flurry of misinformation and disinformation permeating the social media ecosystem. SABARIMALA BECOMES SOCIAL MEDIA FLASHPOINT The Supreme Court verdict allowing…
ANI – A tale of inadvertent errors and oversights
In a tragic accident, a train mowed down Dussehra revellers gathered close to railway tracks near Amritsar. At least 60 people were feared dead. Soon after, videos of the disaster shot…
Decoded: The business of Facebook pages – selling Modi, God, patriotism and more
Those of us even sparsely active on social media must have at some point of scrolling through an ocean of posts come across images of Indian army soldiers, with the…
The truth about Karnataka school making students recite verses from the Quran
A video is currently viral on social media which shows a school teacher teaching verses of the Quran to school children. It has been claimed that the incident took place…
Facebook page ‘BJP All India’: Serial purveyor of fake news
Hours after former president Pranab Mukherjee addressed RSS cadres at an event in Nagpur, a photoshopped image of him wearing the black RSS cap, with his arm lifted, began circulating…
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…
Is GOI’s National Informatics Centre also culpable for Abhinav Srivastav’s Aadhaar data hack incident?
There are three people. Person A, Person B and you yourself. Person A somehow manages to get the login details of your email account, i.e. username and password, and writes…