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    Shinjinee Majumder & Abhishek Kumar

    Pahalgam and after: Tracking ‘retributive’ hate crimes against minorities across India

    29th April 20253rd May 2025
    At least 26 people were killed in the picturesque Baisaran valley near Pahalgam in Anantnag district on April 22 in the deadliest terror attack targetting tourists in Kashmir in recent...
    Pahalgam and after: Tracking ‘retributive’ hate crimes against minorities across India
    Shinjinee Majumder

    To fellow Indians, with love: How little, nameless acts of kindness & mutual respect defeated hate this Eid

    5th April 20255th April 2025
    “Tum kala kamal likho, hum lal gulaab likhenge…” [Roughly translated as: You may say the rose is black, we shall keep saying it’s red, tinged in the colour of love.]...
    To fellow Indians, with love: How little, nameless acts of kindness & mutual respect defeated hate this Eid

    Video of Mumbai Kisan rally falsely shared as farmers’ protest ‘hijacked’ by Muslims

    Archit22nd January 2021

    On January 21, farmer unions rejected the Centre’s proposal to keep the farm bills in abeyance for 18 months and reiterated their demand for the repeal of farm laws. The…

    Old hoax message that WhatsApp will be chargeable revived with Hindi audio clip

    Archit20th January 2021

    As WhatsApp’s privacy policy receives immense backlash, a viral text circulating on the messaging application claims that its services are ending tomorrow at 6 pm. The message warns that those…

    Video of man hacked to death on busy road in Hyderabad shared as Delhi’s Karol Bagh

    Archit19th January 202120th January 2021

    A 22-second clip of three men hacking another to death with sticks and a huge stone in public has gone viral. It’s being shared with a Hindi text that claims…

    Unrelated photos, videos revived with false child-kidnapping rumours

    Archit19th January 202120th January 2021

    A set of videos and images is circulating on WhatsApp with child-lifting rumours. Over the past three years, Alt News has debunked multiple false social media rumours related to child…

    Video of minor’s murder in Rajasthan shared with false child-kidnapping rumours

    Archit19th January 202119th January 2021

    On January 18, Alt News received several requests to verify a video of a man sliting a minor’s throat, shared on social media with child-lifting rumours. This is the third…

    Audio clip discrediting CAA protestors falsely attributed to Supreme Court advocate Harish Salve

    Archit9th January 20219th January 2021

    An audio clip gone viral on WhatsApp is attributed to senior supreme court lawyer Harish Salve. The five-minute audio discredits the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) held across…

    Ex-army man criticizing PM Modi is an imposter? Navbharat Times amplifies false claim

    Archit7th January 20218th January 2021

    A video of Sikh man criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi on how Sikh men have been branded ‘Khalistanis’ for participating in the farmers’ protest has created quite a stir online….

    At least 3-yo photo viral as child serving food during farmers’ protest

    Aqib Pathan21st December 2020

    On December 17, Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) member Bhupender Chaudhary shared an image of a child serving chapatis to people. The image was shared with hashtags #FarmersProtest and #LangarSewa (archived…

    No, this isn’t a vegetable market set-up by farmers themselves in Bengaluru

    Anuradha Prasad17th December 2020

    Social media users have been sharing photos of a warehouse filled with vegetables and fruit carts, claiming that this market was started by farmers in Bangalore. At the same time,…

    Photo of Turkish family from 1970s viral as old family photo of BioNtech co-founder Şahin

    Archit8th December 20208th December 2020

    On December 6, World Health Organisation (WHO) chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan told Business Standard that Pfizer and BioNtech are in the final stages of talks with the WHO to join…

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