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Alt News is an Indian non-profit fact checking website founded and run by former software engineer Pratik Sinha and Mohammed Zubair. It was launched on 9 February 2017 to combat fake news.
Alt News is a fact-checking website that is committed to debunking misinformation, disinformation and mal-information that we encounter on a daily basis on social media as well as mainstream media. Fact-checks by Alt News encompass a wide variety of false information including:
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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] .
Dec 30, 2022 · Throughout 2022, Alt News noticed how established and otherwise ‘credible’ news outlets failed to live up to the standards expected of them, and became a source of misinformation. Each Alt News fact-check article is a source of metadata.
Sep 22, 2022 · Alt News, an independent website, has emerged as a leading debunker of misinformation in the nation, but highlighting hate speech against minorities has put it on a collision course with the ...
Apr 22, 2019 · Pratik Sinha, founder of fact-checking website Alt News, has co-authored ‘India Misinformed: The True Story’ with his colleagues, on the various fake news spreading on social media.
Jan 3, 2023 · How Media Outlets Faltered. Followers of Alt News would be aware that in 2022, media outlets acted as source of misinformation on innumerable occasions. The chart below provides figures on which media outlet shared misinformation how many times, as documented by Alt News in its fact-check reports.
Jul 2, 2022 · Alt News backs up its fact-check stories with meticulous evidence. For instance, a reverse-image search was all it took them to show that images of a 2015 heatwave were being falsely shared as...
