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Alt News fails to spot a joke about Apache helicopters over Pangong Tso lake, fact-checks it

OpIndia Staff -
Alt News fact checks satirical tweet by aviation writer Mihir Shah where he had mocked false claims made by several people on social media
Media

Watch out : ‘Fact checkers’ are trying to claim the fake moral space that big media lost

Abhishek Banerjee -
Welcome to the new reality of the media landscape. All the goodness of old propaganda journalism, cleverly re-branded as “fact checking.”
Media

IndiaSpend’s faulty ‘factchecker’ shuts down its heavily biased and dubious ‘hate crime watch’

OpIndia Staff -
The 'Hate Crime Watch' had gone to the extent of giving a clean chit to Islamic terrorist who was responsible for the Pulwama terror attack.
News Reports

AltNews lies in its response but IFCN declares political activists ‘neutral’: Here is how IFCN is a threat to Indian sovereignty

K Bhattacharjee -
The 'International' in IFCN ought to have been replaced with the word Globalist since it captures their motives and objectives much more effectively.
Fact-Check

AltNews exposes itself, accuses police officer of lying but won’t pull down ‘fact-check’ based on his quotes

Nupur J Sharma -
Self-proclaimed fact-check website, AltNews had recently tried to dilute the charges of brutality heaped on the 3-year-old victim in Aligarh.
News Reports

International Fact-Checking Network says its Indian signatory Alt News may have potentially violated IFCN Code of Principles

OpIndia Staff -
IFCN accepted that Pratik Sinha has violated its nonpartisanship policy by being a member of Jan Sangharsh Manch
Media

AltNews fact-checks BJP’s claims about violence at Vidyasagar College, spreads fake news instead

OpIndia Staff -
AltNews appears to have watched too many episodes of CID and were deeply inspired by ACP Pradyuman and his motley crew.
Fact-Check

‘Journalists’ fail to understand the difference between ‘MLA’ and ‘MP’, twist PM Modi’s statement to spread lies

OpIndia Staff -
PM Modi during his election rally speech in Serampore, West Bengal had dropped a bombshell, warning Mamata Banerjee that 40 MLAs belonging to Trinamool Congress (TMC) were in touch with him.
Social Media

Popular Twitter account TrueIndology suspended again after suspended bureaucrat threatened to use his ‘contacts’ to block it

OpIndia Staff -
Popular Twitter account TrueIndology suspended again, this time after threatened by govt officer suspended for misusing official power
Media

Dainik Jagran uses misleading picture to ‘fact-check’ Rahul Gandhi’s post-Pulwama dance video, creates confusion

OpIndia Staff -
Dainik Jagran's Vishvas News, which spread the misleading information, is part of Facebook's independent 'fact-checker' roster.
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