fake news

Schools must include digital literacy in their syllabi to tackle the menace of fake news

Frances Yeoman, The Conversation Kate Morris, The Conversation
· Jan 09, 2020 · 11:30 pm
‘Repeat offenders’: India’s UN envoy, MEA criticise Pakistan after Imran Khan tweets fake news

Scroll Staff
· Jan 04, 2020 · 11:15 am
Actor Paresh Rawal’s tweet defending CAA flubs geography, ignores 1,643 km India-Myanmar border

Archit Mehta, Alt News
· Dec 22, 2019 · 04:02 pm
Tired of fake news, conspiracy theories and superstitions? Blame evolution, not ignorance

Mikael Klintman, The Conversation
· Dec 17, 2019 · 09:30 pm
Fact check: Did AMU students really shout anti-Hindu slogans, as senior BJP leaders claim?

Jignesh Patel, AltNews.in
· Dec 16, 2019 · 09:44 am
PIB sets up fact-checking unit to tackle spread of fake news related to government

Scroll Staff
· Nov 29, 2019 · 05:44 pm
Video of woman brutally thrashing her daughter is from Jammu – not Pakistan

Jignesh Patel, AltNews.in
· Nov 17, 2019 · 09:07 am
Group that sponsored MEPs’ travel to J&K linked to India-based global fake news lobby network: NGO

Scroll Staff
· Nov 14, 2019 · 01:49 pm
How BJP leaders and media outlets gave Murshidabad triple murder a political and communal colour

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
· Oct 16, 2019 · 09:44 pm
Fact check: Was a Pakistani conspiracy behind #GoBackModi trending as India Today, others claimed?

Pratik Sinha, AltNews.in Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
· Oct 13, 2019 · 12:05 pm
Fake news more dangerous than paid news, causes deaths, says I&B minister Prakash Javadekar

Scroll Staff
· Oct 03, 2019 · 08:02 pm
‘Technology has taken dangerous turn’: SC asks Centre to frame rules to check social media misuse

Scroll Staff
· Sep 24, 2019 · 01:59 pm
Social media firms cannot escape liability for fake news spread on their platforms, says Madras HC

Scroll Staff
· Sep 21, 2019 · 06:10 pm
Staged videos of child-lifters go viral on YouTube – and justify mob violence

Jignesh Patel, AltNews.in
· Sep 16, 2019 · 04:15 pm
Fact check: Was a Mumbai traffic signal washed away in floods as video by Vivek Agnihotri claimed?

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
· Sep 06, 2019 · 09:16 am
Image of Syria gas attack resurfaces to claim Indian children are being abducted, organs harvested

Arjun Sidharth, AltNews.in
· Sep 04, 2019 · 07:19 pm
Kerala students wrongly reported to have raised Pakistani flag in stories by Times Now, others

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
· Sep 01, 2019 · 05:47 pm
Imran Khan’s PTI party shares old videos from Kashmir claiming that they depict recent unrest

Arjun Sidharth, AltNews.in
· Aug 26, 2019 · 09:38 pm
Pakistan minister shares edited clip that falsely claims to show official brutality in Kashmir

Pooja Chaudhuri, AltNews.in
· Aug 19, 2019 · 09:51 pm
Fact check: Did Rahul Gandhi chomp down on samosas as he did an aerial survey of flood-hit Wayanad?

Jignesh Patel, AltNews.in
· Aug 16, 2019 · 07:01 pm