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Fake news: Time we started thinking of consequences of our actions online Traditional media would check and recheck facts, hold stories till a version could be attained, but now editorial judgement is limited to hitting publish or share. By: Nandagopal Rajan |… Continue Reading →
By Alt News Desk – 21st August 2017 ShareTweetSubscribe In an article titled, “Swarajya magazine and Jaideep Mazumdar spread falsehood about Suhrawardy Avenue in Kolkata“, Alt News had exposed how Swarajya had pushed out false information regarding a road called Suhrawardy Avenue in their… Continue Reading →
Salute The Memory Of Comrade Zafar r Comrade Zafar gave his life defending the dignity of the poor and of women – in the process exposing the ugly face of Prime Minister Modi’s Swachh Bharat campaign. Universally liked and… Continue Reading →
The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) strongly condemns the online sexual harassment and abuse of film critic Anna M M Vetticad, the latest in the growing list of Indian female writers to be targeted in this manner…. Continue Reading →
Show Caption The news media in India have become, variously, town criers, cheerleaders, abettors, apologists, and an advance guard of newshounds clearing the way, preparing the ground for the totalising ideology and agenda of the current BJP regime. By SASHI… Continue Reading →
The future of fake news is messaging apps, not social media. And it’s going to be even worse. Nic Dias In some places, the future of misinformation is already here. A hoax about child-napping con artists led to the… Continue Reading →
You can’t cry foul at channels censoring Game Of Thrones or not giving a film certificate to Lipstick Under My Burkha because you like their storylines, even if the government doesn’t Rajyasree Sen A still from ‘Pehredar Piya Ki’. Almost… Continue Reading →
By Siddhant Mohan Just a few hours after news of the tragic death of children in Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical college flashed across the screens in India, the official Twitter handle of Uttar Pradesh government declared that deaths were not because… Continue Reading →
Doordarshan and All India Radio on Tuesday refused to air Tripura CM Manik Sarka’s speech and instead asked him to “reshape” the speech, which he refused. Tushar Dhara | News18.com Chief Minister of Tripura Manik Sarkar inspects soldiers on a parade during… Continue Reading →
Award-winning Santal author Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, who has written the acclaimed novel The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey (2014) and a collection of stories, The Adivasi Will Not Dance (2015), both works of fiction that explore the Adivasi life, suddenly finds himself thick in the… Continue Reading →