Alt News
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| Founded | 2017 |
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| Founder | Pratik Sinha |
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| Products | Web portal |
| Website | www |
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] In 2017, Sinha was invited to the Google NewsLab Asia-Pacific Summit to discuss potential solutions to fake news.[5] Since launching the website, Sinha has received threats to his life, demanding that he stop producing content.[6][7]
Activities
Exposés by Altnews have occasionally received coverage in the mainstream media. Altnews identified the individuals running the Hindu right-wing website DainikBharat.org.[8] 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.[5][9][10][11] 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.[10][11]
References
- ^ "How Alt News is trying to take on the fake news ecosystem in India". First Post. 4 June 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ "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) - ^ "10 Instances That Show A Fake News Explosion Is Taking Place In India". HuffPost. 26 May 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ Dhawan, Himanshi (15 May 2017). "Breaking fake news". The Times of India. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ a b c Sengupta, Saurya (1 July 2017). "On the origin of specious news". Retrieved 7 November 2017 – via The Hindu.
- ^ "News website owner gets threat call from 'gangster'". The Indian Express. 10 March 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ "Mukul Sinha's son gets threat call from 'Pujari'". The Times of India. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ^ "Inside the world of Hindu right wing fake news website DainikBharat.org". Hindustan Times. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ Bhuyan, Anoo. "What the Indian Media Can Learn From the Global War on Fake News". thewire.in. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ a b "India ministry mocked for 'appropriating' Spain border". BBC News. 15 June 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ a b Imran Ahmed Siddiqui (15 June 2017). "Border lights illuminate a Moroccan mockery". The Telegraph. Retrieved 7 November 2017.