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

Kinjal & Priyanka Jha3rd 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…

2022 roundup: How misinformation shaped narratives in India this year

Archit & Indradeep Bhattacharyya30th 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…

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…

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…

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France riots: Unrelated & old photos, AI-images flood social, mainstream media

Imran Khan arrest: News channels show AI-generated image as real; old video, fake agreement paper viral