Alt News fails to fact-check things properly: Report

NEW DELHI: Prateek Sinha's Alt News fails to fact-check things properly, especially when the news includes anyone from the Right Wing, said a report in OpIndia.

"Let it be an ordinary citizen of India or a news agency like OpIndia. The main aim of Alt News in such cases revolves around demeaning the citizen or the organisation and providing dubious sources while claiming to 'fact-check' them", it added.

Sinha not only tried to counter OpIndia's fact-check with further misinformation but also got angry on netizens who replied to him stating he is wrong.

After a report by OpIndia called out lies peddled by self-proclaimed 'fact-checker' Pratik Sinha, he has become extremely irritated.

As per the report, Sinha had reverse-searched an image shared by TrueIndology and had claimed that since the photo by Getty Images does not mention the word 'snow', TrueIndology's claims are wrong. He had not bothered to verify the original source of the image.

TrueIndology's claim was based on the original image in the book "Kashmir: It's New Silk Industry" by Sir Thomas Wardle, and it was published in 1904. In the book, on page 376, the title of the image reads, "Fakir or Holy Man on Lunka Island, Dal lake, sitting in the snow in winter." The photograph was clicked by Geoffrey William Millais. (IANS)

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