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Times Now spreads misinformation about BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya

Arjun Sidharth27th March 201827th March 2018

” It is our job to get from sources whatever we can and break it first. We cannot be faulted for that, and the fact that the tweet was from…

Fact check: Was Amit Malviya the first to tweet about Karnataka poll dates?

Arjun Sidharth27th March 20186th August 2018

“Karnataka will vote on 12May 2018, counting will be on 18May2018”. This is the tweet that has landed BJP IT cell incharge Amit Malviya in trouble. Malviya tweeted the dates of…

Times Now, Kannada news channels air Karnataka poll dates before EC announcement

Alt News Desk27th March 2018

“Karnataka will vote on 12May 2018, counting will be on 18May2018”. The journalists waiting at the press conference were in for a rude shock when at 11.08 am the BJP…

Fake Facebook profile of NCC cadet interviewed by ANI viral on social media

Arjun Sidharth26th March 201826th March 2018

“Surprised he doesn’t have details of NCC. It isnt ‘other stuff’. Its 2nd line of defence. Hope Rahul Gandhi learns about it. Its important for leader to know about it”….

After NaMo App exposé, privacy policy on Narendra Modi’s website makes a quiet U-turn

Pratik Sinha25th March 201825th March 2018

After a French security researcher claimed in a series of tweets that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s application “NarendraModi.in” is sending personal information of its users to a third party website…

Is PM Modi’s APP sharing personal data with a third party without your consent? YES

Pratik Sinha24th March 201825th March 2018

A French security researcher, who has kept UIDAI on their toes by exposing various security holes in the Aadhaar infrastructure, has claimed in a series of tweets that Prime Minister…

Aaj Tak, ABP misreport Jharkhand Rajya Sabha results, claim BJP won both seats

Alt News Desk24th March 20186th August 2018

“Good news coming from Jharkhand…for BJP. BJP wins both Rajya Sabha seats in Jharkhand”, Aaj Tak made this announcement in its ‘Special Report’ on Rajya Sabha elections. The news turned…

Fake quote menace goes too far; Hardik Pandya booked for tweet from parody account

Arjun Sidharth23rd March 20186th August 2018

A special SC/ST court in Jodhpur, Rajasthan directed the police to file an FIR against cricketer Hardik Pandya after a complaint was filed against him alleging that he had made…

Breaking Fake News: Aaj Tak and Republic TV misreport Delhi HC verdict on AAP MLAs

Alt News Desk23rd March 201823rd March 2018

The “Breaking News” industry has done it again. Delhi High Court’s judgement on the ‘office of profit’ case involving the AAP MLAs was expected today. In their rush to be…

Latest fake quotes: Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull, Akshay Kumar and others

Arjun Sidharth22nd March 2018

Another day, another barrage of fake quotes on social media. Alt News has decided to keep a daily track of such fake messages flooding social media. Today, we chronice the…

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From rally to rampage: How provocation and communal targeting plunged Jangipur into violence on Ram Navami

Telangana Police goes after TeluguScribe, invokes UAPA to seek X data