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Alt News was founded in Ahmedabad [13] by Pratik Sinha, a former software engineer and son of Mukul Sinha, who was a lawyer and the founder-president of Jan Sangharsh Manch. [14] [15] Pratik Sinha became interested in exposing fake news when he began working with his activist parents in India.
Mohammed Zubair (born 1983) is an Indian journalist, fact-checker and the co-founder of Alt News, an Indian non-profit fact-checking website. In 2022, Zubair was arrested by Delhi Police over a 2018 tweet for allegedly "insulting Hindu religious beliefs" [2] and incarcerated for a month. [3]
Jun 27, 2022 · The Delhi Police on Monday arrested AltNews co-founder Mohammed Zubair, days after registering an FIR based on a complaint by a man, who had been tagging the Delhi Police on social media alleging that Zubair hurt his religious sentiments and legal action should be taken against him.
Jul 23, 2022 · Journalist Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of the Alt News fact-checking portal, is back home and attending his cousin’s wedding in Bengaluru, after a 23-day stay in prisons and police custody in...
Nirjhari Sinha is the Director of Pravda Media Foundation, the parent company of Alt News and manages the operations of the company. She's a founder-member of a Gujarat-based civil liberties organisation Jan Sangharsh Manch.
Jun 28, 2022 · Mohammed Zubair, the co-founder of fact-checking website Alt News, was arrested by the cyber unit of Delhi Police Monday for hurting religious sentiments and promoting enmity. He was sent to police custody for a day.
Mohammed Zubair. Co-founder, Alt News. Co-Founder Alt News, I can be reached via Twitter at https://twitter.com/zoo_bear. Politics. BJP MP Nirahua said, ‘Modiji & Yogiji curbed unemployment by not having children.’. The video is NOT a deepfake. Shinjinee Majumder & Mohammed Zubair 15th April 2024.
