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'''AltNews.in''' is an [[India]]n fact-checking website supported by [[NDTV]]. It is run by ex-software engineer Pratik Sinha and two others. The website was launched on 9 February 2017 to combat the phenomenon of [[fake news]]. The website has compiled a list of more than 40 fake news sources, most of which support [[Right wing politics|right wing]] views.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newslaundry.com/author/alt-news|title=Newslaundry - Sabki Dhulai|publisher=Newslaundry|accessdate=7 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.firstpost.com/india/how-alt-news-is-trying-to-take-on-the-fake-news-ecosystem-in-india-3513879.html|title=How Alt News is trying to take on the fake news ecosystem in India|date=4 June 2017|work=First Post|accessdate=7 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.financialexpress.com/industry/technology/fake-news-in-the-time-of-the-internet/689738/|title=Fake news in the time of the internet|date=28 May 2017|work=Financial Express|accessdate=7 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/05/26/10-instances-that-show-a-fake-news-explosion-is-taking-place-in_a_22104789/|title=10 Instances That Show A Fake News Explosion Is Taking Place In India|work=[[HuffPost]]|date=26 May 2017|accessdate=7 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/breaking-fake-news/articleshow/58662449.cms|last=Dhawan|first=Himanshi|title=Breaking fake news|work=The Times of India|date=15 May 2017|accessdate=7 November 2017}}</ref><ref name=hindu>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/society/on-the-origin-of-specious-news/article19184953.ece|title=On the origin of specious news|first=Saurya|last=Sengupta|date=1 July 2017|accessdate=7 November 2017|via=The Hindu}}</ref> In 2017, Sinha was invited to the Google News Lab Asia-Pacific Summit to discuss potential solutions to fake news.<ref name=hindu/> Since launching the website, Sinha has received threats to his life, demanding that he stop producing content.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/news-website-owner-gets-threat-call-from-gangster-4562887/|title=News website owner gets threat call from ‘gangster’|work=[[The Indian Express]]|date=10 March 2017|accessdate=7 November 2017}}</ref>
'''AltNews.in''' is an [[India]]n fact-checking website supported by [[NDTV]]. It is run by ex-software engineer Pratik Sinha and two others. The website was launched on 9 February 2017 to combat the phenomenon of [[fake news]]. The website has compiled a list of more than 40 fake news sources, most of which support [[Right wing politics|right wing]] views.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newslaundry.com/author/alt-news|title=Newslaundry - Sabki Dhulai|publisher=Newslaundry|accessdate=7 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.firstpost.com/india/how-alt-news-is-trying-to-take-on-the-fake-news-ecosystem-in-india-3513879.html|title=How Alt News is trying to take on the fake news ecosystem in India|date=4 June 2017|work=First Post|accessdate=7 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.financialexpress.com/industry/technology/fake-news-in-the-time-of-the-internet/689738/|title=Fake news in the time of the internet|date=28 May 2017|work=Financial Express|accessdate=7 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/05/26/10-instances-that-show-a-fake-news-explosion-is-taking-place-in_a_22104789/|title=10 Instances That Show A Fake News Explosion Is Taking Place In India|work=[[HuffPost]]|date=26 May 2017|accessdate=7 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/breaking-fake-news/articleshow/58662449.cms|last=Dhawan|first=Himanshi|title=Breaking fake news|work=The Times of India|date=15 May 2017|accessdate=7 November 2017}}</ref><ref name=hindu>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/society/on-the-origin-of-specious-news/article19184953.ece|title=On the origin of specious news|first=Saurya|last=Sengupta|date=1 July 2017|accessdate=7 November 2017|via=The Hindu}}</ref> In 2017, Sinha was invited to the Google News Lab Asia-Pacific Summit to discuss potential solutions to fake news.<ref name=hindu/> Since launching the website, Sinha has received threats to his life, demanding that he stop producing content.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/news-website-owner-gets-threat-call-from-gangster-4562887/|title=News website owner gets threat call from ‘gangster’|work=[[The Indian Express]]|date=10 March 2017|accessdate=7 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Mukul Sinha’s son gets threat call from ‘Pujari’|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/mukul-sinhas-son-gets-threat-call-from-pujari/articleshow/57583310.cms|accessdate=9 November 2017|work=The Times of India}}</ref>


==Activities==
==Activities==

Revision as of 14:27, 9 November 2017

Alt News
Founded2017
FounderPratik Sinha
Headquarters
India
ProductsWeb portal
Websitewww.altnews.in

AltNews.in is an Indian fact-checking website supported by NDTV. It is run by ex-software engineer Pratik Sinha and two others. The website was launched on 9 February 2017 to combat the phenomenon of fake news. The website has compiled a list of more than 40 fake news sources, most of which support right wing views.[1][2][3][4][5][6] In 2017, Sinha was invited to the Google News Lab Asia-Pacific Summit to discuss potential solutions to fake news.[6] Since launching the website, Sinha has received threats to his life, demanding that he stop producing content.[7][8]

Activities

Exposés by Altnews have occasionally received coverage in the mainstream media. Altnews identified the individuals running the Hindu right-wing website DainikBharat.org.[9] Sinha demonstrated that a video purportedly of a Hindu man being lynched by Muslims in Bihar was in fact from Bangladesh. He also showed that a video allegedly depicting a Marwari girl married to a Muslim man being burnt to death for not wearing a burqah was Guatemalan in origin.[6][10][11][12] According to the BBC, a report by Altnews in June 2017 demonstrating that the Indian Home Ministry had used a picture of the Spanish-Moroccan border to claim it had installed floodlights on India's borders led to the ministry facing online mockery.[11][12]

References

  1. ^ "Newslaundry - Sabki Dhulai". Newslaundry. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  2. ^ "How Alt News is trying to take on the fake news ecosystem in India". First Post. 4 June 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  3. ^ "Fake news in the time of the internet". Financial Express. 28 May 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017. {{cite web}}: no-break space character in |title= at position 29 (help)
  4. ^ "10 Instances That Show A Fake News Explosion Is Taking Place In India". HuffPost. 26 May 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  5. ^ Dhawan, Himanshi (15 May 2017). "Breaking fake news". The Times of India. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  6. ^ a b c Sengupta, Saurya (1 July 2017). "On the origin of specious news". Retrieved 7 November 2017 – via The Hindu.
  7. ^ "News website owner gets threat call from 'gangster'". The Indian Express. 10 March 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  8. ^ "Mukul Sinha's son gets threat call from 'Pujari'". The Times of India. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
  9. ^ "Inside the world of Hindu right wing fake news website DainikBharat.org". Hindustan Times. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  10. ^ Bhuyan, Anoo. "What the Indian Media Can Learn From the Global War on Fake News". thewire.in. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  11. ^ a b "India ministry mocked for 'appropriating' Spain border". BBC News. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  12. ^ a b Imran Ahmed Siddiqui (15 June 2017). "Border lights illuminate a Moroccan mockery". The Telegraph. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
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