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FROM BEFRIENDING JAIL INMATES TO MYSTERIOUSLY DELETED TWEETS: A GLIMPSE INTO ALT NEWS’ MOHD ZUBAIR’S POST-BAIL LIFE
It has been almost a week since Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair was granted bail from the Supreme Court. For a few days, Zubair remained silent, but now he has started to emerge via interviews and background Twitter activity. It is fair to assume he… Read More
ZUBAIR WAS PAID FOR MALICIOUS TWEETS, ALT-NEWS CO-FOUNDER RECEIVED OVER RS 2 CR: UP POLICE
A bench of the Supreme Court heard the petition filed by Alt News Co-founder and fact-checker Mohammed Zubair seeking the quashing of the five FIRs filed against him by the Uttar Pradesh Police or alternatively clubbing them with the FIR by the Delhi Police, on July… Read More
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PAKISTAN: SITE ALLOCATED FOR ‘IIT LIKE INSTITUTE’ TURNED INTO “BAKRA MANDI,” FORMER VC EXPRESSES DISMAY
Pakistani academician Dr. Umar Saif, formerly the vice-chancellor of the Information Technology University (ITU), Lahore, has highlighted concerns over the nation’s educational system. Dr Saif posted an image on Twitter showing how an institute that was supposed to be similar to the Indian Institute of… Read More
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Elon Musk Cancels $44bn Deal To Buy Twitter Setting Stage For Protracted Legal Battle
Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla, has notified Twitter that he is terminating the proposed $44 billion deal to buy Twitter because the microblogging platform had failed to provide adequate information about fake and spam accounts. Musk's announcement sets the stage for… Read More
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CANADIAN DIRECTOR’S FILM POSTER SHOWING GODDESS MAA KAALI SMOKING HURTS RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS OF HINDUS
A controversial poster of a documentary movie by Indian filmmaker Leena Manimekalai has surfaced on Twitter. Director, poet and actress Leena Manimekalai has shown Goddess Maa Kali smoking a cigarette in this poster. This has hurt the religious sentiments of millions of Hindus across the… Read More
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INDIA BLOCKS TWITTER ACCOUNTS OF PAKISTAN EMBASSIES IN UN, TURKEY, IRAN & EGYPT
Twitter India has banned official accounts of Pakistan Embassies in the United Nations, Turkey, Iran, and Egypt. Earlier, Twitter also withheld the account of the national public broadcaster – Radio Pakistan. YouTube channels based in Pakistan were found to have been used in a coordinated… Read More
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FOR A WITHHELD TWEET, RANA AYYUB GETS SUPPORT FROM PEOPLE WHO EITHER WORK FOR GEORGE SOROS OR ARE FUNDED BY SOROS’S OPEN SOCIETY: DETAILS
On June 26, a tweet by Washington Post columnist Rana Ayyub was withheld by Twitter in response to legal demand by the Government of India. In the tweet posted last year, Ayyub had cast aspersions on the judiciary in connection to the disputed structures called… Read More
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‘LIBERAL’ JOURNALISTS SUFFER A MELTDOWN ON TWITTER AFTER ALT NEWS CO-FOUNDER MOHAMMED ZUBAIR WAS ARRESTED BY DELHI POLICE FOR HURTING RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTS
The arrest came days after several Hinduphobic posts from Zubair’s Facebook accounts had gone viral. After netizens shared his old posts mocking Hindu Gods, Zubair had apparently deleted his Facebook account. Zubair had also recently deleted dozens of tweets from his Twitter account, though it… Read More
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PROPHET ROW: INTERNATIONAL HACKERS LAUNCH SERIES OF CYBER ATTACKS ON INDIA AGAINST NUPUR SHARMA’S STATEMENT
Following recent remarks by suspended BJP spokesperson, Nupur Sharma, about Prophet Muhammad, the Malaysia-based hacktivist group DragonForce has launched a series of cyber attacks against the Indian government. Sharma made some remarks about Prophet Muhammad during a panel discussion about the Gyanvapi Mosque survey, hosted… Read More
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AS ALTNEWS’ MOHAMMED ZUBAIR DELETES HIS FACEBOOK ACCOUNT OVER HINDUPHOBIC POSTS, NETIZENS DIG UP HIS OLD TWEETS MOCKING HINDU GODS
Netizens on Twitter are dredging up old tweets of AltNews co-founder Mohammed Zubair after a social media user on Monday highlighted how the ‘fact-checker’ who instigated the blasphemy threats against Nupur Sharma has a history of making derogatory posts over Hinduism and Hindu Gods. … Read More
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‘HINDUS WORSHIP IDOLS, THEY ARE DIRTY’: MUSLIM BOY EXPOSES TEACHINGS OF MADARSAS IN BANGLADESH
On June 5, a video was shared on the social media platform Twitter by Voice of Bangladeshi Hindus in which a young Muslim boy explained the teachings of Madarsas in Bangladesh. In the video, when the person who was recording asked about Hindus, the boy… Read More
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BJP’S NUPUR SHARMA AND NAVEEN JINDAL SUSPENDED AFTER UPROAR ON ARAB TWITTER
BJP has suspended Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal following uproar from Islamic nations on Twitter. BJP acting under pressure from the Muslim world not just sends out a wrong message but also puts the Bharatiya government on the backfoot. Nupur Sharma has been receiving threats… Read More
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TURKEY-BASED ORGANISATION THAT HAILED TALIBANI TERRORISTS AND PALESTINIAN JIHADISTS BEHIND TWITTER STORM OVER ANTI-INDIA REMARKS ON PROPHET MUHAMMAD
Earlier yesterday, a malicious trend took Twitter by storm as bigoted online mob, consisting mostly of Muslim Twitter users, from the Arab world launched a coordinated social media campaign attacking Hindus residing in the middle east and outraging over the alleged blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad.… Read More
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“IF ONLY WE FOLLOWED PERIYAR’S WORDS” DMK SPOKESPERSON WISTFUL ABOUT KILLING BRAHMINS
A DMK spokesperson has openly called for the genocide of Brahmins on Twitter. Following in the footsteps of Periyar aka EV Ramasamy, he said that the former’s genocidal speeches should have been realised by Shudras. This comes in light of an anti-Hindu anti-Brahmin event in… Read More
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SIX DAYS BEFORE SONIA GANDHI IS SUPPOSED TO APPEAR BEFORE ED, SHE ALLEGEDLY TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-19
Congress President Sonia Gandhi has reportedly tested positive for Covid-19 and has isolated herself. The Congress party has informed about the same on Twitter today. The news of the Congress chief contracting the virus has come 6 days before she is supposed to appear before… Read More
