India’s left-leaning media is now employing Goebbels-like propaganda to denigrate those who it views as political opponents. Yesterday, several mainstream outlets including Hindustan Times, Moneycontrol and Mint, far-left publications including NDTV and Wire published articles around how former Uttarakhand Chief Minister TS Rawat had said that the coronavirus had a […]
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Alt News Founder Mohammed Zubair Spreads Fake News On Muslim Performing Last Rites For Abandoned Hindu, Shares Clarification After Being Exposed
Such is the dystopian state of Indian journalism that fact-checkers themselves seem to be spreading the most fake news. Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair yesterday retweeted a tweet which attempted to show how a Muslim man had come to the rescue of a dead Hindu after he’d been abandoned by […]
Ravish Kumar Shares Fake News Of One Mohd Yunus Performing Last Rites For One Anubhav Sharma
Even amidst a pandemic, India’s left-leaning propagandists are missing no opportunity to further their political agendas. Ravish Kumar, Abhisar Sharma and others have shared a photo of a Muslim man at a cremation site with the claim that he performed the cremation for a Hindu. “In Muzaffarnagar, Mohammed Yunus performed […]
Alt News Carries Fake Fact Check On The Daily Switch Post On AIIMS Hospitals
If you thought the quality of India’s left-leaning news outlets was bad, the quality of its left-leaning fact-checkers is even worse. Alt News today carried out a ‘fact check’ on the number of AIIMS hospitals developed under different governments. “Did UPA govt build only one AIIMS institute during their tenure? […]
Swati Chaturvedi Shares Old Photo Of Amit Shah Campaigning And Calls Him “Shameless”, Deletes Tweet After Being Called Out
Even as India is battling the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, its left-leaning propagandists are at the front and center of spreading fake news. Alleged journalist Swati Chaturvedi, who writes for NDTV and Gulf News, today shared a photo of Amit Shah in what looked like a massive roadshow. […]
Moneycontrol Spreads Fake News That Govt Exported Oxygen During Pandemic, Deletes Article And Issues Apology After Being Called Out
It’s not just far-left propaganda outlets that are spreading fake news during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic — even business outlets are joining in. Yesterday, Moneycontrol had published what it tried to pass off as a big expose. “EXCLUSIVE: India exported nearly 9,300 metric tonnes of oxygen in […]
Prashant Bhushan Shares Fake Letter Attributed To NSA Ajit Doval Praising Kumbh’s Management For ‘Promoting RSS Ideology’
India’s supposed intellectuals might want to opine on the economy, military strategy, and global geopolitics, but they regularly seem to fall for the most banal of fake news. Prashant Bhushan, widely considered an intellectual in leftist circles, today shared a letter supposedly written by India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval. […]
Dhruv Rathee, Rajdeep Sardesai Try To Spread Fake News That Mamata Banerjee Has Stopped Her Election Campaign, Banerjee Addresses 3 Rallies Immediately After Claim
As the Bengal election draws to a close, left-leaning propagandists have become desperate — and sufficiently brazen — to spread fake news that can be debunked by a simple Google search. YouTuber Dhruv Rathee, who is regularly caught spreading fake news, today claimed that Mamata Banerjee has stopped her election […]
Dhruv Rathee Claims Govt Spent Rs. 300 Crore On Ram Mandir, Gets Exposed By Anshul Saxena
Even in the times of the second wave of the coronavirus outbreak, leftist propagandists continue to spread fake news. AAP-leaning YouTuber Dhruv Rathee today hinted that the government had spent Rs. 300 crore on the construction of the Ram Mandir. “Statue of Unity: ₹3000 Crore. Central Vista: ₹20,000 Crore. Ram […]
Rajdeep Sardesai Spreads Fake News That Mamata Banerjee Said She Was Attacked By BJP Workers, Deletes Tweet Later
Hardly a few weeks after Rajdeep Sardesai has returned to India Today after being suspended for spreading fake news, he’s back to doing what he does best. Rajdeep Sardesai today claimed that Mamata Banerjee had said that she’d been “attacked by BJP workers” in Nandigram. “High drama in Nandigram,” Sardesai […]