Disinformation, falsehoods flood social media as Israel-Hamas conflict escalates into full-blown war
Entering its fifth day on October 11, the Israel-Palestine conflict all but escalated into a full-blown war with the Israeli military confirming that dozens of its fighter jets had struck...
Rajasthan compensation to Kanhaiya Lal & Iqbal: ‘Discrimination’ claim false
On September 29, two youths named Iqbal and Rahul were involved in a bike collision in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Following the accident, they got into a fight with each other. When...
A two-minute video is viral where a woman is probing a purported staff member of a school about the institution’s policy on transportation charges, tuition fees and annual fees amidst…
Alt News has received multiple requests to fact-check a one-minute video on WhatsApp (+917600011160) and on our official Android application. The video is part of an India TV broadcast where…
A claim massively viral on social media suggests that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has “inducted” 22-year-old Prathap NM from Karnataka, who builds drones from e-wastes, into the Defence Research and…
A social media claim has surfaced that an Indian Air Force helicopter Rudra was shot down by Nepal and a pilot was captured. This has been promoted using a 30-second…
On June 20, a Thailand-based news website Asia News published an article with the headline ‘Japan deployed ballistic missiles at China border after its conflict with India’. The article claimed…
On June 19, several media outlets reported that the Indian Air Force (IAF) deployed Apache helicopters in Ladakh in the wake of the border dispute with China. Soon after, a…
A video of a truck ramming into a queue of vehicles on a road has been shared across social media platforms with the claim that the accident happened in Mysore…
A 20-second video is being widely circulated on WhatsApp with the claim that it shows coronavirus-infected dead bodies dumped in a sea in Mexico with the help of choppers. The…
On June 23, Patanjali Ayurved announced the launch of ‘Coronil’ and ‘Shwashari’ as a cure for coronavirus. Baba Ramdev touted the Ayurvedic drug as an effective treatment for the infection….
On June 24, The Hindu reported, “Pune district reported more than 192 new COVID-19 cases, the highest surge till now over a 12-hour span, taking the district’s case tally to…