Pahalgam and after: Tracking ‘retributive’ hate crimes against minorities across India
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...
To fellow Indians, with love: How little, nameless acts of kindness & mutual respect defeated hate this Eid
“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.]...
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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,…
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…