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Old, unrelated images used to build a fake narrative and shame the victim of Chandigarh stalking incident

Pratik Sinha7th August 20177th August 2017

BJP Spokesperson Shaina NC, Prashant Patel, a Supreme Court lawyer, Rupa Murthy, an author of fake news site postcard.news, and Vivek Bansal, a BJP social media volunteer, are among many…

FAKE: Video of IT raid on T&T law firm made viral as money found at Congress Minister DK Shivkumar’s home

Pratik Sinha5th August 201712th September 2019

A Twitter handle called @DurgaMenon which is followed by PM Narendra Modi, Power Minister Piyush Goyal and many other senior BJP leaders has posted a video on her Twitter timeline….

“Why are you running away like a coward?”, Republic TV reporters ask Shashi Tharoor

Alt News Desk4th August 20175th August 2017

Yesterday, at the end of Shashi Tharoor’s press conference in which he answered questions about the newly-formed All India Professionals’ Congress, four Republic TV correspondents chased Shashi Tharoor from the…

With murders of Rafiquddin Shaikh and Naveed Pathan, the cycle of fake news rolls across the border

Bruce Vain2nd August 20172nd August 2017

It is with headlines like ‘This is the real face of Indians’, ‘Religiously motivated murder by Hindu fanatics’ that Pakistani media shared the news and video of the murder of…

President Kovind gains 3 million NEW followers in an hour? Get real, Indian media

Alt News Desk26th July 2017

“President Kovind makes Twitter debut, gains 3 million followers in one hour.” Sections of Indian media have been fawning over President Kovind gaining three million followers in the span of…

Times Now, Republic share photo shot during food festival as Robert Vadra’s “meeting” with Chinese envoy

Pratik Sinha20th July 201718th June 2020

Republic TV and Times Now shared a photograph of the Gandhi family with the claim that this “undated” picture shows Robert Vadra and Rahul Gandhi with the Chinese envoy. Fact-check…

Fact Check: Are terror activities contained in Jammu and Kashmir as claimed by BJP?

Sam Jawed19th July 201720th July 2017

“Modi government’s ‘free hand’ to the army helping contain terror activities in Jammu and Kashmir” claimed the infographic shared on the day of the terror attack on Amarnath Yatra by…

Is Modi Govt the most trusted in the world as claimed by Indian media?

Alt News Desk16th July 201718th July 2017

Yet again, multiple Indian media organisations have made a claim based on statistics which they did not bother to verify or read the fine print. “Narendra Modi’s Govt is most…

Alt News Impact: BJP Asansol IT Incharge Tarun Sengupta arrested for spreading fake video

Alt News Desk12th July 2017

The logo inside the circled region in the screenshot above is that of Alt News. West Bengal police this morning announced the arrest of BJP Asansol IT Cell Secretary Tarun…

Gujarati Newspaper Sandesh, OneIndia fall for satirical post about man sentenced to death due to farting

Pratik Sinha3rd July 2017

It is one thing for Twitter trolls to use posts from satirical websites for political propaganda. However, for main stream media outlets to promote satire as news is quite disturbing….

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Why PM Modi’s dig at ‘infiltrators’ in Independence Day speech could spell trouble

Unrelated videos viral as footage of weapon seizure in Lucknow with communal claims