Telangana Police goes after TeluguScribe, invokes UAPA to seek X data
Telangana police have sought information from X regarding an account called ‘TeluguScribe’ under Section 94 of the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), which empowers a court or a police officer...
BJP shares clipped video to falsely claim TMC’s Byron Biswas conceded defeat
A couple of days after the first phase of polling in West Bengal, a video showing Trinamool Congress’s Sagardighi candidate, Byron Biswas, went viral, in which he appeared to be...
The same fake video has been made viral a third time, each time with a different narrative. Alt News had previous written about how a video was circulated as a…
A Change.org petition to remove Raheel Khursheed as head of Twitter India is viral on social media and has done well to get 28000+ supporters so far, presumably from the…
On 18th May 2015, Twitter handle of postcard.news tweeted the picture of two young children claiming that they were Balochs who were being killed and brutalised. In reality, this image…
On completion of three years of BJP government, report cards on various schemes are being converted into infographics and shared widely on social media. In an eagerness to state achievements,…
A picture of Bollywood Actress Alia Bhatt as a toddler sitting in Mahesh Bhatt’s lap is the featured image of an article on the home page of chaskatimes.com. The title…
The Kerala ‘Godman’ whose genitals were cut off by a 23-year old girl, to put an end to eight long years of sexual exploitation, is a associate of Hindu Aikya…
Despite living in India for 37 years and being a citizen of India since 2002, Jean Drèze had to write a letter in 2016 to clarify his citizenship position to…
Indian cities are not particularly known for their cleanliness and it is not the first time that someone has posted a picture of the filth on social media. Yet when…
A rumour that has been making rounds since last year has reappeared on social media. A twitter user @beingsandeep posted a pixelated picture of journalist Barkha Dutt riding pillion with…
Editorial Introduction Since the last few days, social media has been buzzing with the news of Dr. Makarand Paranjape, author and Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University being stopped from attending…