Pakistan minister shares edited clip that falsely claims to show official brutality in Kashmir

Syed Ali Haider Zaidi is his country’s federal minister for maritime affairs.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Aug 19, 2019 · 09:51 pm

Fact check: Did BBC, Al Jazeera and Reuters fabricate reports about a large protest in Kashmir?

The videos broadcast by the agencies were clearly shot in Srinagar’s Soura area.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

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Pratik Sinha, AltNews.in

· Aug 14, 2019 · 07:26 am

That ‘Kashmiri woman’ happy at scrapping of 370 in the photo BJP MP Goel tweeted? It’s from 2014

In fact, the woman is probably a tourist posing in a traditional outfit.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Aug 11, 2019 · 08:00 am

Fact check: Did Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra plagiarise her speech as Zee News claimed?

The channel said the address had ‘stolen words’ from a 2017 US article. But the author of that piece tweeted to say that the MP did not ‘plagiarise anything’.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Jul 04, 2019 · 09:49 am

Not a fatwa: How media misrepresented a Muslim cleric’s statement about Trinamool MP Nusrat Jahan

Many sources, including Scroll.in, failed to check whether the Darul Uloom had actually issued a fatwa against the politician for her interfaith marriage.

Mohammed Zubair, Alt News

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Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Jul 02, 2019 · 09:27 am

Fact check: Examining BJP’s claims about perpetrators of violence at Kolkata’s Vidyasagar College

There is no visual evidence to support allegations by Amit Shah and the party’s IT cell head that TMC students were responsible for the vandalism.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· May 16, 2019 · 10:09 am

Fact check: Did Mamata Banerjee really say, ‘I will slap Modi’?

The West Bengal chief minister actually said, “I want to give PM Modi a tight slap of democracy.’ But Aaj Tak, ABP and News18 misreported her statement.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· May 10, 2019 · 12:49 pm

Fact check: Are these Italian historical buildings owned by Rahul Gandhi as claimed by man in video?

Reserve Bank of India director S Gurumurthy was among those who shared this fake news.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Apr 30, 2019 · 10:58 am

Facebook purge: Hundreds of BJP-related pages were taken down – but not mentioned in firm’s release

The tech giant’s move, so close to India’s elections, raises several concerns.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Apr 07, 2019 · 12:52 pm

Pro-BJP Facebook pages offer freebies for votes, raising questions of poll code violation

‘Pledge your first vote for PM Modi for the better India and win exciting goodies,’ read the ads.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Mar 27, 2019 · 10:50 am

Fact check: Images of James Bond actress Ursula Andress being passed off as photos of Sonia Gandhi

Yet again, fake images of the Congress leader does the rounds.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Mar 25, 2019 · 04:57 pm

As pro-BJP sites lead on Facebook ad spending, questions of transparency emerge

Of the Rs 2.5 crore spent on ads on the site, pages supporting the ruling party put down over Rs 1.5 crore.

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in

· Mar 24, 2019 · 10:30 am