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Alt News

Not to be confused with Alternative newspaper.

Alt News
Available in
  • English
  • Hindi
Founded2017
Headquarters
Ahmedabad
,
India
OwnerPravda Media Foundation[1]
Founder(s)
ProductsWeb portal
URLwww.altnews.in
Current statusActive

Alt News is an Indian non-profit fact checking website founded and run by former software engineer Pratik Sinha and Mohammed Zubair.[2][3] It was launched on 9 February 2017 to combat fake news. In October 2022 Harsh Mander (author, activist and director of the Center for Equity Studies in New Delhi), along with the campaign he launched in 2017, Karwan-e-Mohabbat ("Caravan of Love"), a campaign supporting and showing solidarity with the victims of hate crimes, along with Mohammed Zubair and Pratik Sinha have been nominated in the Henrik Urdal's (Peace Research Institute Oslo Director) list of "worthy candidates"/"worthy recipients" for 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. A note on the official website of Peace Research Institute Oslo read, "Other worthy candidates for a prize focused on combating religious extremism and intolerance in India are Mohammed Zubair and Pratik Sinha, the co-founders of Alt News, a fact-checking site making significant contributions to debunking misinformation aimed at vilifying Muslims in India".[4][5][6] Alt News was a signatory partner of the International Fact-Checking Network until April 2020.[7][12]

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  5. ^ "10 Instances That Show A Fake News Explosion Is Taking Place In India". HuffPost. 26 May 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  6. ^ Dhawan, Himanshi (15 May 2017). "Breaking fake news". The Times of India. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Pravda Media Foundation Profile". International Fact-Checking Network, Poynter.
  8. ^ Alawadhi, Neha (4 May 2020). "WhatsApp launches chatbot to bust fake news, allies with global group". Business Standard India. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  9. ^ Tiwari, Ayush. "The embarrassment that is PIB Fact Check: Who fact-checks this 'fact checker'?". Newslaundry. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  10. ^ "A fact-checker's life: Exposing fake news and communalism, surviving social boycott". Moneycontrol. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  11. ^ Mantas, Harrison (20 May 2020). "Why would Indian police issue and then withdraw a manual on misinformation? Political divides could be the answer". Poynter Institute.
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