Technology

Digital artist’s work posted on Instagram viral as close-up of Chinese spy balloon over US

Vansh Shah22nd February 2023

The US Military shot down what they called a Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina on February 4, 2023. The US government had been tracking this balloon…

YouTube fails to moderate scripted child-kidnapping videos stoking fear and making money

Mahaprajna Nayak11th November 202214th November 2022

Trigger Warning: Violent Content. Viewer discretion is advised. Over the past few months, rumours of child kidnapping have spread like wildfire in many parts of the country based on purported…

Scripted video falsely believed to be depicting genuine ‘FASTag scam’

Abhishek Kumar29th June 2022

A video of a young boy cleaning the windshield of a car is making the rounds on social media. It has been claimed that the boy stole money through the…

Facebook fails to terminate hate speech propagator Suresh Rajput, YouTube suspends his channel

Pooja Chaudhuri25th November 202111th February 2022

On November 9, Yati Narsinghanad disciple Suresh Rajput uploaded a video on Facebook about AIMIM chief Asaddudin Owaisi, where he referred to Muslims as “pigs” and termed the violence against…

Video game showing MiG aircraft landing believed to be real

Kalim Ahmed12th July 2021

A video clip of a fighter jet landing on a dam is being widely circulated on social media with the claim that it is a “MiG aircraft”. The video is…

Visual of Mars shot by NASA’s Curiosity Rover in 2020 viral after Perseverance Rover landing

Archit24th February 2021

In the backdrop of NASA’s Perseverance Rover landing on Mars on February 19 (IST), a video has gone viral on Twitter and Facebook with the claim it is an audio-video…

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

Archit6th 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…