A photograph of a man in a burqa has been shared widely on social media along with a message that refers to ‘vote jihad’ in the garb of the burqa. According to the message, the photo represents a man who was caught red-handed trying to vote... Read More
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“News of 7 Pakistani Army soldiers being killed by Baloch freedom fighters of Jaish-al-Adl is trickling in. My Baloch friends say that they will keep attacking Pak Army till they achieve Independence from Pakistan. @OfficialDGISPR kindly confirm... Read More
“Ads related to politics and issues of national importance that have run on Facebook or Instagram” amounted to Rs 2.5 crore between March 2 and 16, revealed Alt News’s weekly analysis of Facebook ad library data. Out of this total... Read More
“We are committed to fighting the spread of false news on Facebook, especially ahead of the 2019 General Election campaign season,” Manish Khanduri, Facebook India’s news partnership head, said in a statement. Last month, the tech giant added... Read More
Major Gaurav Arya, an army veteran and host of Republic TV’s show, ‘Patriot’, tweeted a video on March 14. In the video, a group of blindfolded soldiers, whose hands are tied behind their backs, are seen being beaten severely by two... Read More
A Facebook user, Bhola Nath Varma posted two videos, supposedly of a Pakistani news channel report saying, “देखिये और सोचिज। (Watch and think- translation)”. The message posted along with the video suggests that... Read More
Facebook recently introduced its Ad Library report, which is a searchable database consisting of “ads related to politics and issues of national importance that have been run on Facebook or Instagram.” Alt New’s analysis of the report... Read More
On March 2, Twitter user @IndianInterest tweeted two satellite images with a claim that the building, reportedly bombed by the Indian Air Force in Balakot, was demolished. In a series of tweets, he refers to the source of the image along with the... Read More
The Pakistani government declared that captured Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman will be released on March 1 as a “peace gesture”. Soon after, both Pakistani and Indian social media ecosystems were brimming with photographs that claimed to... Read More
Earlier today, the spokesperson of the Pakistani Armed Forces claimed on his Twitter account that Pakistan had shot down two Indian airforce planes inside Pakistani airspace and had arrested one Indian air-force pilot. At the time of writing, no... Read More