Alt News Exposé II: BJP leaders, OpIndia editor among four who voted in Bihar and in other states
Days after the first phase of the Bihar assembly elections, Alt News uncovered the case of three voters — all associated with the BJP — who voted in Bihar as...
News outlets misidentify Delhi blast suspect Dr Arif, pass off photo of unrelated namesake as key accused
On November 13, three days after an explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort killed 13 people, the anti-terrorism squad (ATS) arrested a 32-year-old cardiologist from Kanpur, Dr Mohammad Arif, in connection...
At 2:36 pm on December 11, 2017, Times Now broke an ‘exclusive’ story of former Finance Minister P Chidambaram meeting Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Saleem Zaeef. According to the photograph…
On December 7, a horrific video emerged from Rajasthan. In the gruesome clip that shook the collective conscience of the nation, a middle aged man is seen hacked and burned…
It has been observed that mainstream media at times has succumbed to disseminating false information either unwittingly or otherwise. Recently in November, there was a report of television actress Sulagna…
On November 11, 2017, The twitter handle @ShankhNaad shared a poster that attributed the following quote to Mahatma Gandhi – “if a Muslim expressed his desire to rape a Hindu or…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally in Dharampur, Gujarat, referred to a statement by Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar wherein he claimed that Aiyar had compared the Congress party…
A massive controversy erupted on social media when reports suggested that Congress vice President Rahul Gandhi on his visit to the Somnath temple in Gujarat registered as a non- Hindu…
The appeal by the Archbishop of Gandhinagar to voters in Gujarat to ‘save the country from nationalist forces‘ was the top story on primetime for some television channels. India Today…
On November 26, Dainik Jagran, Dainik Bhaskar, Amar Ujala and Jansatta on the basis of a video ran a story which claimed that ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ slogans were raised at an…
Multiple news reports suggested that the release of Hafeez Saeed, the mastermind of Mumbai terror attack and JuD chief, was celebrated in Lakhimpur Khiri in Uttar Pradesh. According to media…
“Mahendra Makrana is from @AamAadmiParty, Abhishek Som who placed a Rs 5Cr bounty on Bhansali’s head is from SP and Lokendra Kalvi, who threatened to cut Deepika Padukone’s nose, is…