As protests spread, a video of a dancing girl went viral. Some users, many of them linked with the Trinamool Congress, claimed it was a scene from a BJP-organised protest & called it 'sickening'. We found it was a village fair in Bengal with no BJP-link: altnews.in/woman-dancing-…

As the clamour grew for R G Kar ex-principal Sandip Ghosh's arrest, a photo went viral, which the social media claimed, showed Sanjay Roy, the prime accused in the rape-murder, cutting a cake alongside Ghosh. This was FALSE. Find out more in this report: altnews.in/sanjay-roy-cut…

Kanchan Gupta, who claims to be an advisor to the Union I&B ministry, shared a clip falsely claiming that Rajdeep Sardesai had dismissed the rape & murder in Kolkata. The video that Gupta shared was from last year. It can't be related to the present case: altnews.in/kolkata-rg-kar…

The BJP IT cell chief, Amit Malviya, was not to be left behind. He shared a video clip from a candlelight vigil in Dhaka calling it a scene from protests in Kolkata. The clip went crazily viral. Here is the #AltNewsFactCheck of Malviya's false claim: altnews.in/video-from-ban…

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In an era where fake news is rampant across social media platforms, Alt News is providing an invaluable service. Kudos to the entire team.

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Several unverified theories & social media claims about the crime.

On September 4th, I was served an injunction order by lawyers of Rohan Dua for my tweet about his questions to ace shooter Manu Bhaker. My tweet was protected exercise of free speech. Instead of being bullied, I chose to seek vacation of the injunction as the suit had misleading

Everything in this tweet is FALSE. The lady is not a doctor. And her statement has been distorted by editing the clip to question the morality of protesting doctors and set a misleading narrative. Read #AltNews fact check here: altnews.in/r-g-kar-stir-p…

“You & your channel spread hatred against Muslims on TV The damage you are doing to Muslims & this country is disgusting” Brutal bélt trèatment to Rahul Kanwal on Live TV 👏🔥🔥

Huang Mu, Xu Chin and McAdams say Hi! Guy who can't differentiate between two guests on his show and reads out fake WhatsApp forwards takes on Max Mueller & Romila Thapar. I think he takes his initials too seriously.

#BREAKING Supreme Court grants bail to Arvind Kejriwal in the CBI case.

J Bhuyan: It appears only after TC granted regular bail to appellant in ED case, that CBI became active and sought custody. It didn't feel need to arrest for over 22 months. Such action raises serious question on arrest itself. A view may be taken #SupremeCourt #ArvindKejriwal

Umar Khalid completes 4 Years in Jail. Without Trial. Without Bail. Without a Crime. यह चार साल दाग़ है हमारी न्याय व्यवस्था पर, भारत के संविधान पर। #UmarKhalid4YearsInJail #4YearsOfInjustice x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

All the big talk by SC judges, all the brouhaha over Milords' bail-is-the-rule-jail-is-exception observations look like a sham when you think of #UmarKhalid. Today marks 4 yrs of him being in jail & scoundrels who said 'goli maro' roaming free. 1400 days. #FreeUmarKhalid.

Never too late to remind ourselves what this country stands for and who we are.