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Oct 27 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Several Right Wing trolls like @MrSinha_ @rishibagree @HPhobiaWatch @ChandanSharmaG etc are sharing a screenshot of Bittu Sharma @common000786Om and claiming it's a fake ID created by a Muslim. They can't digest a Hindu Brahmin speaking against the BJP.
Let's Fact check.
In Dec 2023, Bittu Sharma had donated to Altnews. When I checked for more details, I found his email id and Phone number on our donation website. When I searched for his phone number on Truecaller and WhatsApp, His name was displayed as Bittu Sharma on both.
Sep 30 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
If any of Anti BJP accounts had gone for a debate with this Pakistani YouTuber, The same right wing gang would have declared them as Pro-Pakistan, Anti-India gang.
Here are a few tweets by @Arzookazmi30 baaji mocking Indian Airforce which I am sure right wing trolls like @MrSinha_ @vijaygajera will forgive.
More Anti-India, Anti-Army Tweets by @Arzookazmi30 which @MrSinha_ @vijaygajera want their Nationalist followers to ignore.
Aug 5 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
A lot of Indian Right wing accounts are spreading communal propaganda.
Here are images of local Muslims stepping in to protect the temples in Bangladesh.
More images of Local Muslims safeguarding Temples. #BangladeshBleeding #BangladeshViolence
Jul 20 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Hello @elonmusk @XEng, You had promised to remove all the bot accounts from @X. But there are millions of Bot accounts still following PM Modi. Here are a few bot accounts created in 2013 or because only and only to follow PM Modi and nothing else. I am sure there are millions of such accounts.
This 2024 election gave hope to many that a strong opposition would speak up to protect democracy and the dignity of marginalised communities.
Long Thread 🧵
People supporting the opposition believed that the opposition would speak for them. Muslims who voted for your parties were hopeful that the results would stop the wave of Islamophobia.
Dalit and Adivasis who supported you, wanted you to speak for their rights.
Jun 11 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
Let's debunk the propaganda by @smitaprakash's Agency & @ians_india who claimed "Delhi Women staged a protest demanding payment of Rs 1000 promised by the AAP govt."
These BJP woman who organised this protest were later seen celebrating at McDonald's.
The Woman recording the protest is Pooja Maini Chadha. She can be seen going in a bus to the protesting site. Here @smitaprakash hides Pooja's BJP association because she wants to mislead her viewers to think the protesters are not associated with the BJP.
May 29 • 24 tweets • 9 min read
Do read this important thread 🧵
As India voted in the months-long 7-phase election, @AltNews worked relentlessly to expose/document/report on political disinformation and hate speech used in poll campaign, and the election commission's failure to act on them.
On April 21, PM Narendra Modi delivered a speech in Rajasthan's Banswara and summarily addressed Muslims as 'infiltrators' and 'those who produced more children'. Alt News reported how Modi's speech was a textbook example of hate speech |
In Purnia, Bihar, A newly married girl Vandana Kumari was strangled to death and her body was hung in her house by her ex-boyfriend Shelendra Kumar. He later confessed to his crime after arrest.
You'll hardly see any News Agencies or Channels covering this because there is no Hindu-Muslim angle to this. Neither did this happen in States ruled by opposition. livehindustan.com/bihar/purnia/s…
A 30-year-old woman Praviya was stabbed with a knife and later burnt to death by her Ex-boyfriend on the Kodumunda coastal road near Pattambi. Her wedding was scheduled for April 29. According to reports, The accused Santhosh, a native of Aloor died by suicide after the attack.
The Pro Govt Propaganda News Agency @ANI or National Media isn't interested in reporting this incident because there is no Hindu-Muslim angle to this.
Apr 12 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Thread 🧵
A lot of RW accounts are finally trying to Fact Check @dhruv_rathee for his video on how BJP encashed Electoral Bonds purchased by a Beef Export company Allana groups.
For the context, Before Fact checking Dhruv's and Khan Sir's video, Let's go back to 2012-2015 and see a few videos of @narendramodi speaking against Export of 'GouMaas' ( Cow Meat) and incidentally, during the same time, Received donation of ₹ 2.2 Crore in 2013-14 and ₹50 Lakh in 2014-15 from a Beef Export company Allana groups.
Did you know, In BJP election rallies, CM Narendra Modi, spoke several times about 'Pink Revolution' ( Gulabi Kranti). In his speeches, He spoke about how the Congress Govt was giving subsidies to the butcher House which exported 'GouMaas' ( Cow Meet).
Wait.. Did we ever officially export GouMaas ( Cow meat) to foreign countries?. It was always Buffalo meat which is also referred to as Beef or Carabeef. Wasn't this a misleading claim by Narendra Modi in 2012?
Apr 2 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Shazia, A student from @GalgotiasGU schools the News Anchor that Media's job is NOT just to report what the Govt says, But to Fact Check too. 🙂
After a speech at #E4MSummit 2024 by @e4mtweets, Sudhir Chaudhary takes a few questions from the University students in the audience.
Shazia questions Sudhir Chaudhary about misinformation by the Media, Gives an example of the recent @BJP4India's Election ad campaign "Modi ji ne War Rukwa di papa, aur fir humari bus nikali papa".
To which @sudhirchaudhary in the end says: This was because the Opposition didn't like this (Propaganda?), Let's suppose if there was no opposition, People would have praised the PM for stopping the Ukraine way.
What if your father had stopped the war, Wouldn't you be happy?"
To which Shazia interrupts : “If the war had actually stopped, But it didn't”
By the way, It's International #FactCheckingDay today.
Full video at the end of this thread.
Question by Shazia: There was a recent BJP ad campaign, in the campaign, they showed PM Modi stopped the war in Ukraine so that students from India could be rescued. But we also saw several videos of students there which were contradicting this Statement. This misinformation was also run by several News channels including @aajtak, Don't you think the Media is amplifying such misinformation to the public?
Apr 1 • 37 tweets • 17 min read
AN IMPORTANT THREAD DEBUNKING FALSE NARRATIVE BY THE RIGHT WING ON DELHI RIOTS 2020.
The RW is trying to establish that the Delhi riots in 2020 were Anti-Hindu riots and not Anti-Muslim riots. They even wrote books claiming the same. Sharing videos/images. Do watch & decide. 🧵
Let me start with a video of Ragini Tiwari, A close associate of Yati.
She wasn't arrested by the Delhi Police. Ragini does Facebook live encouraging RW mob to Attack Muslims. Says 'Jo bhi gaddar hai k@@t dalo usko.. Ye bhimte hai kya', K!Il all the traitors.. Is he a Dalit?"
Mar 23 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Wow! So Congress has given a ticket to Sunil Sharma, Partner and Director of @JaipurDialogues.
Hello @kharge @RahulGandhi @priyankagandhi, This handle @JaipurDialogues is one of the most hateful X handles. Most content against religion and Congress.
Here are some of the tweets from @JaipurDialogues against Rahul, Muslims, Views on Godse.
Mar 16 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
International students (Africa, Uzbekistan, Afganistan etc) studying in Gujarat University @gujuni1949 claim they were beaten up, Stones thrown at them and at their hostel (A-Block), Vehicles destroyed while they were offering Ramazan Taraweeh at a place inside the hostel A-Block allotted to them by the Hostel administration. A few students are injured and currently admitted in SVP hospital. You can hear the mob chanting religious slogans while pelting stones at the students inside the hostel.
C'C : @dgpgujarat @GujaratPolice @AhmedabadPolice @AjayChoudharyIN @Bhupendrapbjp @sanghaviharsh
More videos of the incident. They can be seen pelting stones at the hostel room and destroying students vehicles.
Feb 27 • 24 tweets • 8 min read
A Thread 🧵
We at @AltNews have observed that supporters of the BJP often portray members of opposition as pro-Pakistan. We have debunked several such claims where names of leaders have been misrepresented as ‘Pakistan Zindabad’ by BJP members & News Channels & their Anchors. 👇
1. Ujjain videos: “Qazi Saab Zindabad” slogan mistaken for “Pakistan Zindabad” in a Taziya function organised by BJP member Shabnam Ali. altnews.in/ujjain-videos-…
Feb 15 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
After targeting Mohammed Sami,
Right Wing trolls like @MrSinha_ are now targeting Cricketer #SarfrazKhan by using screenshots of some fake accounts.
Here, @MrSinha_ tried to point out that this account (@sarfarazkhan977) is the official account of Cricketer Sarfaraz Khan and that his account has liked a few "Anti India" tweets. This is untrue. The account isn't his but a fake account.
Feb 1 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Moradabad: Bajrang Dal/VHP leaders had organized cow slaughter to get the SHO removed, four arrested.
Moradabad District Police arrested Bajrangdal District Chief Sumit Vishnoi alias Monu Bajrangi along with Raman Chaudhary, Rajeev Chaudhary, Shahabuddin for cow slaughter. This gang got the cows slaughtered at two places in 15 days. Monu Bishnoi gave 2 thousand rupees to Shahabuddin to carry out the cow slaughter.
The aim was to send Mahmood to jail and remove the SHO. Therefore, Mahmood's photo/name was left at the place of cow slaughter, so that the police could send Mahmood to jail. After the first cow slaughter when Police didn't arrest Mahmood, Sumit Vishnoi and team hatched a conspiracy to remove the SHO. After slaughtering the cow once again, they threw the remains of the cow and started protesting against the SHO. But the entire conspiracy was exposed during police investigation.
Here is a video of Bajrang Dal/VHP leaders Sumit Vishnoi, Raman Chaudhary and Rajiv Chaudhary etc protesting near Police station to arrest the people for cow slaughter. @moradabadpolice obliged and arrested Bajrang Dal members for hatching a conspiracy by slaughtering the cow.
Jan 15 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
This is the biggest story of the day which Most News Channels, News Agencies and Godi Anchors will skip because they can't afford to show BJP Govt in the bad light especially when the Victim is a Muslim.
Their house was demolished with Drumbeats and music by municipal officials in police presence while razing off their house within half an hour of serving a backdated demolition notice addressed to his dead mother. 3 of their family members were sent to jail based on a rumour that they spat on a Hindu procession
After 150 days in jail with no evidence for the alleged crime of spitting on a Hindu procession, Muslim teen in Madhya Pradesh got bail by high court, after complainant & witness accuse police of falsifying FIR. article-14.com/post/muslim-te…
Here is a video of a News Anchor @AmanChopra_ from Ambani's channel @News18India celebrating while reporting the Buldozing of the house of a Muslim.
Jan 3 • 10 tweets • 8 min read
Two accused Omprakash Mishra and Tahar Singh sent email threatening to blow up Ram Mandir, UP CM Yogi Adityanath and STF Chief Amitabh Yash with bombs citing ISI by creating fake IDs of Zubair Khan (zubairkhanisi199@gmail.com) & Alam Ansari (alamansarikhan608@gmail.com ) were arrested.
The mastermind behind this plan is Devendra Tiwari. Devendra Tiwari asked Tahar Singh & Om Prakash Mishra to send threat emails to him.
Dec 31, 2023 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
Nearly two months after a female student was allegedly sexually assaulted and video recorded her after taking her clothes off inside the IIT-BHU campus, 3 were arrested.
Officers identified the accused as Kunal Pandey, Anand Chauhan and Saksham Patel. Kunal Pandey and Saksham Patel were members of BJP IT cell Varanasi.
There was a huge protest on the campus by the students after the incident on November 1.
Dec 20, 2023 • 10 tweets • 9 min read
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Twitter account @GoneGirlAnnie has been tweeting about helping street dogs and the poor. She claims to be the Co-Founder of @HelpingHooks.
Found something interesting. When you try to donate via Gpay by using the given UPI ID, It shows the banking name as 'Sandeep Mandal'. Also, The number matches with the DM screenshots (pic1)
While searching for "Sandeep Mandal" on Twitter, I found an old tweet who'd shared account details and QTd an account @smitamandal089 ( this tweet is now deleted). Here you can see the bank Name as Sandeep Mandal with the same mobile number.
Dec 16, 2023 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
A thread of an unfortunate Incident in Belagavi district where a woman was assaulted and paraded naked and the politics, 5 days after the incident.
In the early hours of Monday, 13th Dec, A Woman was assaulted and tied to a pole and partially stripped after her son eloped with a girl in Belagavi district. The woman was later rescued by the police after a villager alerted them about the incident.
The girl’s engagement was scheduled on December 11.
The family of the girl was opposed to her relationship with the boy and reportedly planned to get her married to another man, leading her to flee town with her partner. When her family learned that the couple had eloped, her family members barged inside the boy’s residence and ransacked it, pelted stones and dragged the boy's mother outside the house. She was then stripped naked and paraded in the village. Both the accused and the victim's family were far relatives and from Bedara Nayaka (ST) caste. The Belagavi police arrested seven people (Basappa Rudrappa Nayak, Kempanna Raju Nayak, Raju Rudrappa Nayak, Parvati Basappa Nayak, Gangavva Basappa Weli-Valikar, Sangeeta Sadashiv Heggana Nayak, and Yallava Rudrappa Nayak) on the same day. This was reported on 13th by The Hindu, The News Minute, The New Indian Express and a few more.