Fact check: Did Rahul Gandhi chomp down on samosas as he did an aerial survey of flood-hit Wayanad?

BJP supporter Madhu Kishwar and others shared an old video of the Congress leader that was shot during the poll campaign in April.

Jignesh Patel, AltNews.in

· Aug 16, 2019 · 07:01 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-checking Amit Shah’s claim that Article 370 and Article 35A kept Jammu and Kashmir poor

An analysis of government data shows that the northern state fares better than most others on development indicators such as life expectancy and literacy.

Shreya Khaitan, Factchecker.in

· Aug 10, 2019 · 01:30 pm

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: Has Andhra Pradesh chief minister appointed evangelist as head of Tirupati temple trust?

YV Subba Reddy is a Hindu and his full name is not Yehova Vincent Subba Reddy, as the BJP-supporting academic claimed.

Arjun Sidharth, AltNews.in

· Jun 17, 2019 · 04:40 pm

Fact check: Are 58% of NASA employees Indian, as a viral message claims?

Asian Americans and Pacific Islander account for merely 8% of the organisation’s workforce.

Arjun Sidharth, AltNews.in

· Jun 16, 2019 · 11:42 am

BJP MP claims Belagavi teenager was murdered by cow smugglers but police say it was suicide

The boy had got into a quarrel with his family, a senior police officer said.

Arjun Sidharth, AltNews.in

· May 28, 2019 · 02:59 pm

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: Could Narendra Modi really have used a digital camera and email in the 1980s?

The first commercial digital camera, the Kodak 100, was sold in 1991. And India launched its first public internet service in 1995.

Factchecker Team

· May 14, 2019 · 03:54 pm

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