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    Kinjal & Priyanka Jha

    Roundup 2022: How parties, leaders, media & influencers amplified misinfo this year

    3rd January 2023
    Looking through the prism of news headlines, the Russia-Ukraine conflict and elections in several Indian states were the two major events of 2022. These incidents found wide coverage in mainstream...
    Roundup 2022: How parties, leaders, media & influencers amplified misinfo this year
    Archit & Indradeep Bhattacharyya

    2022 roundup: How misinformation shaped narratives in India this year

    30th December 2022
    At 8.11 PM on January 3, Alt News published one of the first articles of 2022. It dealt with media misreports in a story involving a Punjab politician. Almost a...
    2022 roundup: How misinformation shaped narratives in India this year

    Nation TV: A misinformation factory on YouTube targeting BJP with false and outrageous claims

    Priyanka Jha2nd December 20222nd December 2022

    There are several channels on YouTube known to peddle political propaganda, whether in support of the government or against it. In the past, Alt News has intimated the video platform…

    Victim blaming on social media: How Shraddha murder case exposed the patriarchal core of Right Wing

    Shinjinee Majumder & Mahaprajna Nayak1st December 2022

    Inter-faith relationships between Hindu women and Muslim men have been a sore point for the Indian Right Wing for decades. The alleged defiance of traditional norms and customs by Hindu…

    YouTube fails to moderate scripted child-kidnapping videos stoking fear and making money

    Mahaprajna Nayak11th November 202214th November 2022

    Trigger Warning: Violent Content. Viewer discretion is advised. Over the past few months, rumours of child kidnapping have spread like wildfire in many parts of the country based on purported…

    The year that was: Misinformation trends of 2020

    Pooja Chaudhuri5th January 20218th January 2021

    The word ‘unprecedented’ only mildly captures the year 2020. The coronavirus pandemic did more than confine the privileged inside their homes and leave the destitute to their fates. It has…

    Shahrukh Khan removed from Jio ads? – How a web of imposter accounts amplified misinformation

    Pooja Chaudhuri26th June 2020

    In the past few weeks, multiple Twitter accounts impersonating prominent individuals have successfully amassed thousands of likes and retweets. Several people have fallen for these handles despite each of them…

    BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra: Propaganda powered with misinformation

    Pooja Chaudhuri14th June 202015th June 2020

    Sambit Patra is the most visible spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He is best known for his appearances as a party representative on television debates and snide remarks…

    Sudarshan News and its history of dangerous, communally-divisive misinformation

    Pooja Chaudhuri23rd October 201929th August 2020

    Last year, railway minister Piyush Goyal had congratulated Suresh Chavhanke on the 14th anniversary of his media venture Sudarshan News. “I hope your channel continues to inform truth to the…

    Old images, digital artworks shared as first photographs of Earth sent by Chandrayaan-2

    Mohammed Zubair27th July 201927th July 2019

    “First photograph of earth, sent by Chandrayan 2….. What an eye-catching visual it is,” says a message viral on social media with a set of photographs from space. First photograph of…

    Misinformation by Indian mainstream media – Top stories 2018

    Arjun Sidharth5th January 20195th January 2019

    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

    Arjun Sidharth5th November 2018

    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…

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