Alt News claimed that features like download limit and CAPTCH on ECI portal, and image only voter lists are barriers in West Bengal voter lists, while the fact is these are default feature for all the states and UTs
The posts related to an incident in which a migrant worker from Odisha was brutally attacked by a group of four juveniles on a train on the way to Thiruthani from Chennai.
By showing the actual origin of user accounts, X’s update is exposing foreign-based political handles that long posed as local voices, triggering debate on transparency, credibility and the extent of overseas influence in India’s digital discourse.
Taking to X, the factchecker-cum-propagandist tagged the Janam TV’s Tamil news handle and asked why his old picture was used in the case of Al-Qaeda linked terrorist. Mohammed Zubair also tagged Tamil Nadu and Chennai Police in his post published on 28th October.
However, Vijay Gajera, the founder of fact-checking portal, Only Fact, alleged that while Mohammed Zubair claims that the allegations of Alt News or people linked to it, receiving foreign funding are false, Dr Sumaiya Shaikh and Sharfaroz Satani received foreign grants to the tune of Rs 50 lakh from the US-based Thakur Family Foundation.
The AAG, representing the UP Government, stated that Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair tried to construct a narrative via his posts without providing complete picture of the events.