After Pak victory, old video viral claiming youth beaten up in Bhagalpur for saying “Pakistan Zindabad”
After India's loss to Pakistan in the Champion's trophy, multiple fake videos are being circulated with the claim that Indian Muslims are celebrating Pakistan's victory. We debunked two such videos in a post yesterday, one of which was from Pakistan ...
PM Modi’s choice of gifts for foreign dignitaries will surely surprise Yogi Adityanath
Yogi Adityanath, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, recently made a statement about Taj Mahal and other minarets having no connection with India's culture or heritage at a function in Darbhanga, Bihar. Speaking in the context of gifts given to for...
Multiple fake videos circulated on social media claiming Indian Muslims celebrated Pakistan’s victory
At least two misleading videos are currently viral on social media and WhatsApp with the claim that Indian Muslims celebrated Pakistan's victory over India in Champion's trophy. While one of the videos is from Pakistan, the other video is many months...
After Alt News exposé, the army of fake profiles defending Vasundhara Raje and Rajasthan Govt, vanishes
They came, they tweeted, they got caught and they vanished! The brave army of fake profiles has deserted the cause they were supporting so vocally yesterday. There has been some hurried action after the Alt News story on fake profiles defending Rajas...
Army of fake Twitter profiles defend Vasundhara Raje and Rajasthan Govt over lynching of Zafar Khan
When Vasundhara Raje, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan broke her silence over the lynching of Zafar Khan by municipality workers, her choice of words was met with shocked outrage on Twitter. Her tweet, “the demise of Zafar Khan ji in Pratapgarh is ext...
OpIndia lies, falsely claims that Alt News didn’t want to publish Major Gaurav Arya’s rebuttal to our article
Alt News published an article titled, "Major Gaurav Arya circulates a fake image as evidence of lathi-charge by West Bengal Police" yesterday. In response to that article, OpIndia has now published an article titled, "Major Gaurav Arya responds to li...
MHA Annual Report fiasco: Photographer claims copyright violation in an email to Alt News
“If it’s a mistake by the ministry, we will apologise,” is what Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi reportedly said upon being informed about the gaffe in the annual report released by Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) where in a picture of Spain-Morocco bor...
TrueIndology or TrueFraudology – Part 3 – Exposing more fakery and a rebuttal
"To be continued", has been the status of an article on TrueIndology's wordpress blog for more than 96 hours after it claimed "In a series of articles I will show how this website calling itself Altnews lies through its teeth.". Alt News waited for a...
Nirmala Sitharaman vs Sambit Patra – How to respond when one falls prey to fake news
The industry of fake news has become so wide-spread that multiple BJP ministers and leaders are regularly falling prey to it. In the last month, BJP MP Paresh Rawal has tweeted two fake stories and now in a matter of 24 hours, Union Minister Nirmala ...
One month of Republic TV – How did they fare?
It is hard to believe that it has been only one month since Republic TV was launched with so much fanfare. It seems like a much longer period, perhaps because so much has happened in one month. The channel has blended into the Indian media scene with...
