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Major Gaurav Arya tweets 2006, 2010 images as Baloch attack on Pak troops; deletes later

Pratik Sinha29th March 2019

“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…

Facebook pages spent Rs 2.5 crore on political ads in 2 weeks; BJP leads by huge margin

Pooja Chaudhuri23rd March 201924th March 2019

“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…

3 out of Facebook’s 7 fact-checking partners have shared misinformation post-Pulwama

Pooja Chaudhuri & Priyanka Jha18th March 201917th August 2020

“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…

Major Gaurav Arya tweets misleading video, defends the misinformation

Jignesh Patel15th March 201916th March 2019

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…

Staged video circulating as Pakistani news channel’s reportage after Balakot air strike

Jignesh Patel9th March 2019

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…

Alt News Analysis: Pro-BJP pages account for 70% of ad spending made public by Facebook

Pooja Chaudhuri9th March 201912th December 2021

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…

Zee News broadcasts old, unrelated satellite visuals as destroyed JEM camp in Balakot

Jignesh Patel8th March 20199th March 2019

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…

Unrelated picture portrayed as Wg Cdr Abhinandan’s mother rejoicing his release

Pooja Chaudhuri28th February 201928th February 2019

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…

Pak social media shares video of pilot injured in Bengaluru Aero Show as that of IAF Pilot

Pratik Sinha27th February 2019

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…

Multiple Indian media channels play old footage as IAF strike on JeM camps

Arjun Sidharth26th February 201915th March 2019

With India waking up to news of the Indian Air Force bombing JeM terror camps at Balakot in Pakistan in the early hours of February 26, multiple news channels have…

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Unrelated & AI-generated visuals linked to 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia’s Kamchatka

Incident of cheating in PWD exam in Chhattisgarh given false communal narrative