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Fact-check: Is govt monitoring calls and social media to track political and religious content?

Archit Mehta6th April 202027th May 2021

The Centre announced new IT rules on February 25 and the deadline to comply with the law ended on May 26. Non-compliance means that social media companies like Facebook, Twitter,…

Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali pulls a fast one – rebrands an American app as Swadeshi Kimbho chat app

Alt News Desk31st May 201810th July 2018

अब भारत बोलेगा.! सिम कार्ड के बाद बाबा रामदेव ने लॉन्च किया मैसेजिंग ऐप KIMBHO, व्हाट्सऐप को मिलेगी टक्कर.. अपना #स्वदेशी मैसेजिंग प्लेटफार्म। गूगल प्ले स्टोर से सीधे डाउनलोड करें…

Is GOI’s National Informatics Centre also culpable for Abhinav Srivastav’s Aadhaar data hack incident?

Alt News Desk11th August 2017

There are three people. Person A, Person B and you yourself. Person A somehow manages to get the login details of your email account, i.e. username and password, and writes…

While researching a fake fatwa, I stumbled upon the dark alley of fake news industry

Pratik Sinha28th March 201713th June 2017

A twitter hashtag #ISupportRohitSardana trended for a long time on 27th March, Rohit Sardana being the star anchor of Zee News and a huge favourite of Modi supporters. Why the…

From ‘Hitler with a Tilak’ meme to a Bengali poem critical of hardline Hinduism, Facebook is on a take-down spree

Pratik Sinha27th March 201727th March 2017

Facebook has always been a place where people across the world share their views and ideas. We follow the laws in each country, but we never let one country or…

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Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali pulls a fast one – rebrands an American app as Swadeshi Kimbho chat app

Is GOI’s National Informatics Centre also culpable for Abhinav Srivastav’s Aadhaar data hack incident?

While researching a fake fatwa, I stumbled upon the dark alley of fake news industry

From ‘Hitler with a Tilak’ meme to a Bengali poem critical of hardline Hinduism, Facebook is on a take-down spree