In a historic first, India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft’s Vikram lander touched down near the moon’s little-explored south pole at 6.04 pm on August 23. Soon after this, as the mainstream and…
Investigation: How Facebook page promoting Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel violated EC norms in 2022 state polls
In April 2023, Alt News published a report that revealed how a network of 23 websites and their associated Facebook pages – all hosted on the same IP address –…
No, BBC did not criticize Chandrayaan 3. Old clip viral; false report by Times Now, India TV, Zee News & other outlets
In a historic first, India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft’s Vikram lander touched down near the moon’s little-explored south pole at 6.04 pm on August 23. Following the incident, a clip from a…
Is AIIMS Darbhanga operational? No, PM Modi’s recent claim false; even land has not been finalized for the facility
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while virtually addressing the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Regional Panchayati Raj Council in West Bengal, stated on August 12, “From Guwahati in Assam, Kalyani in West Bengal,…
Man chops finger to protest against police inaction over brother’s suicide, video viral with misleading claim
Trigger Warning: Suicide, Self Harm The story uses only screenshots and not actual tweets in view of the graphic nature of the viral video. A video of a man chopping…
Iranian nomadic family’s video viral as infiltration in Manipur from Myanmar
In a video being shared on social media, a group of people are seen making a difficult trek through the mountains. It has been claimed that the people in the…
Caste-discrimination claim false, viral clip an awareness video by Bengaluru sanitation workers during pandemic
A video of a woman shooing away sanitation workers standing on the pavement in front of her house is viral on social media. The woman asks the female workers to…
Amit shah did not ignore CJI Chandrachud’s greetings, screengrab from I Day function viral with false claim
Several dignitaries including the Prime Minister and the Chief Justice of India attended the Independence Day celebrations held at the Red Fort. Against this backdrop, a picture is viral on…
Nuh violence & after: VHP rallies in several states call for killing of Muslims, social & economic boycott
In the days following the communal clashes in Nuh during Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP)’s Brij Mandal Jalabhishek Yatra on July 31, several rallies and Mahapanchayats were held in many states,…
Gutter water to cook Biriyani? No, video of Haryana eatery viral with false claims
A video of a store called Shama Biryani Dhaba has gone viral on social media with the claim that the eatery uses unhygienic water from the gutter to cook Biryani….