An in-depth look at how a team of fact-checkers at Alt News in India is struggling against misinformation spread by the ruling BJP party on Facebook services
Sonia Faleiro / Rest of World : Tweets: @dlberes , @restofworld , @mirakamdar , @restofworld , and @prempanicker See also Mediagazer Tweets: @dlberes : “In the U.S., misinformation involves a huge amount of story making. In India it's two or three lines of text and an image, all tailored to WhatsApp rather than a web browser.” Important and disquieting work from @restofworld https://restofworld.org/... @restofworld : The average Indian media consumer is inundated with misinformation from morning to night. In the hopes of changing that, @zoo_bear and @free_thinker, two software engineers, quit their jobs and started the fact-checking organization @altnews https://restofworld.org/... Mira Kamdar / @mirakamdar : “because so much misinformation in India is really just hate speech, the lack of oversight has fundamentally altered the face of social media.” https://twitter.com/... @restofworld : The average Indian media consumer is hit with misinformation from the time they open the day's paper to when they lay in bed scrolling on their phones, writes @Soniafaleiro. This is the story of two software engineers who quit their jobs to change that https://restofworld.org/... Prem Panicker / @prempanicker : A profile of @AltNews by the always excellent @soniafaleiro 👇👇👇👇 https://restofworld.org/... See also Mediagazer
The average Indian media consumer is hit with misinformation from the time they open the day's paper to when they lay in bed scrolling on their phones, writes @Soniafaleiro. This is the story of two software engineers who quit their jobs to change that https://restofworld.org/...
“In the U.S., misinformation involves a huge amount of story making. In India it's two or three lines of text and an image, all tailored to WhatsApp rather than a web browser.” Important and disquieting work from @restofworld https://restofworld.org/...
The average Indian media consumer is inundated with misinformation from morning to night. In the hopes of changing that, @zoo_bear and @free_thinker, two software engineers, quit their jobs and started the fact-checking organization @altnews https://restofworld.org/...
“because so much misinformation in India is really just hate speech, the lack of oversight has fundamentally altered the face of social media.” https://twitter.com/...
It's why 2 engineers @zoo_bear, 38, & his colleague @free_thinker, 39, banded together to form @AltNews, which debunks false information with meticulous documentation. But while their profile has risen, they find themselves playing whack-a-mole in a country hostile to the truth.
While India faces a deadly second wave of Covid-19 cases, it's grappling with another pandemic: misinformation. @Soniafaleiro chronicles the rise of India's current fake-news climate, and the story of @altnews, the fact-checkers trying to stem the tide https://restofworld.org/...
Indians are inundated with misinformation from the time they open the day's paper to when they lie in bed scrolling on their smartphones at night, so much so that if they don't make the effort to seek out facts for themselves, they risk responding to a fictional reality. https://…
At a time when the country is facing its greatest challenge yet, India's climate of misinformation promises to give the fact-checkers of Alt News more work than they can handle. “If you don't want people to talk about core issues,” Sinha says, “you invest in hate.”
This piece by @soniafaleiro brings so much context to the chaos and inaction we're seeing out of India right now, an indictment of Modi's misinformation playbook, its effects destroying the country from the inside out https://restofworld.org/...
The rise of misinformation in India and the story of a small team of fact-checkers at @AltNews trying to stem the tide This is what it's like to fact-check in Narendra Modi's India https://restofworld.org/... — must-read reporting by @soniafaleiro, illustrations by @chuanming_
As Covid-19 rages across India, misinformation is proving to be deadly. This is the story of @altnews, a dedicated team of fact-checkers (@zoo_bear, @free_thinker, @NirjhariSinha, @samjawed65) in a country that's increasingly hostile to the truth https://restofworld.org/...
Really great, in-depth piece by @soniafaleiro on how misinformation spreads in modern India, and the people trying to combat it. https://restofworld.org/...