CRPF action on ‘Trinamool goons’? Old video from Bangladesh falsely viral
A video is being widely shared on social media linking it to the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections. It shows two men arriving on a motorcycle, dismounting, and attacking a...
AI videos, fear, and communal polarization: Inside BJP’s hateful digital campaign in Bengal
The battle for West Bengal has, this election cycle, been defined less by governance and more by an unrelenting churn of communal politics. What was once one strand among many...
The political situation in West Bengal has become volatile after the result of the 2019 general election. According to some media reports, a BJP worker was killed in post-poll violence…
Amid the escalating controversy over the alleged use of animal fat in the preparation of ‘laddoo prasadam’ at the Sri Venkateswara Swamy Temple in Tirupati, X handle The Jaipur Dialogues…
A rumour viral on social media claims that organ smugglers are killing innocents to sell their body parts. The message circulating in Telugu claims that 500 people travelling from Bihar…
A message going viral on messaging platforms claims that 58% of the employees at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are Indian. This claim is part of a longer message…
A claim viral since early June suggests that former IPS officer Kiran Bedi has been appointed as the governor of Jammu and Kashmir. BJP MLA from Gujarat Bhanuben Babariya asserted…
Chintu Verma, a Twitter user who is followed by BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, shared a video where a group of children are seen walking in a queue. In…
Right-wing website OpIndia published an article on June 13, accusing Alt News of fabricating SSP Akash Kulhary’s statements in a June 6 report on the Aligarh murder case. Alt News’s article…
A video of people of different ethnicities dancing to the Bhojpuri track ‘Lollypop Lagelu’ has been reported by several media publications as cricket fans dancing to the song during World…