AltNews and its romance with Police denials
I nternet is now available to mass of India; India also emerged as largest market for the Internet. With the rise of Internet, the rise of social media is happening and with rise of both, misinformation or fake news both are becoming unbearable issues. To avoid this, fact-checking came into the picture. But can we think what can happen if fact-checkers themselves are using their websites for ideological push? Let's take an example of prominent 'fact-checking' website AltNews . AltNews is romancing with Police denials since a long, twisting and cherry-picking them, and this is study of that romance. Let me clear two things: I don't take guarantee of the veracity of any of the reportings mentioned below and Police denials are not standard fact-checks. There are many different versions of one event and Police's version is just one of that. It happened that Police's version proved wrong in judicial system. After Nizamuddin Markaz issue, audio clip of Maulana...