Who is Rishabh Thakur, accused in the attack on Muslim youths at Bareilly birthday party?
When 22-year-old nursing student Shivangi threw a birthday party at a cafe in Bareilly’s Rajendra Nagar on December 27 for her college friends, little did she know that all hell...
Year in review: Deepfakes and AI supercharged disinformation & propaganda in 2025 like never before
It’s AI’s world, and we’re just living in it. The bugle had been sounded long back. Its arrival announced all over. However, it was only in 2025 that fact-checking outlets,...
History sheeter and five-time MLA Atiq Ahmed, 62, and his brother Ashraf were shot dead by three assailants in Prayagraj on the night of April 15 while being escorted by…
A nine-second video clip of Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has been making the rounds on social media platforms. In the video clip, Gehlot remarks, “Amritpal Singh is saying that…
A video clip is making rounds on social media with the claim that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was ‘foolishly’ seen offering a handshake to a differently-abled person in a public…
In an in-depth report published on April 3, Alt News exposed how 23 websites hosted on a single IP address (13.232.63.153) spent crores of rupees creating ‘disclaimers’ to run political…
Social media is rife with posts claiming that the Tata Group has built the new Parliament house in just 17 months and that the Indian multinational conglomerate has charged only…
A video of protestors ransacking an outlet of restaurant chain McDonald’s went viral on Twitter with the claim insinuating that the protesters were Muslim immigrants who created havoc in the…
A letter written apparently on the official letterhead of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is viral on social media. The text contains 12 specific lessons on how to ‘entrap’ Muslim…
Violence erupted in the Shibpur area of Howrah district in West Bengal on March 30 evening, when two rallies, one taken out by the Vishva Hindu Parishad and another by…
Some social media users have shared a picture of important leaders from the Cabinet of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, including B R Ambedkar and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, sharing a…
Taking part in the Ram Navami Shobha Yatra in Hyderabad on March 30, suspended BJP MLA T Raja Singh delivered yet another communally charged speech rife with open calls for…