Politics

Coveragetimes.com is a ‘news website’ that started just a few months ago and is already ranked in the top 15000 websites in India. In terms of their reach, they are…

Welcome to the fake news round-up for October 2017. We saw many repeat offenders this month, confirming the belief that a vast majority of fake news originates from a few…

“If Ahmed Patel was a patron of hospital from where 2 suspected ISIS terrorists were arrested then should he be not held responsible?” asked Chief Minister Vijay Rupani at a…

“#BREAKING: JEM terrorists identified, Republic TV gets you first and exclusive pictures“, was a tweet sent out by the Republic TV at 2:36 pm on October 16th. The aforesaid text…

“Rohingyas likely to attack Nagaland” The ANI story on Oct 12th quoted Intelligence branch of Nagaland Police to raise alarm bells about the security threat that Rohingyas pose to national…

‪”This is a policy I have long supported….” Desperate for positive endorsement of the controversial demonetisation experiment, the BJP IT cell must have been delighted to find this tweet of…

If there is one person on Twitter whose life deserves to be documented then that is Zubina W Ahmad. Unfortunately, Twitter doesn’t like her and keeps suspending her accounts. Zubina…

“Godse was God sent”, “Gandhi should have been hanged“, “Godse had valid reasons to shoot Gandhi”, “I repeat I’m a big Godse fan, so what?” What do the people who…

One of the most common utility of fake news is as a weapon for character assassination and vilification. Alt News has covered many such instances where fake news has been…