- Suhasini Raj
- New York TimesUpdated: Sep 23, 2022, 19:57 IST IST
Alt News has emerged as a leading debunker of misinformation, but highlighting hate speech against minorities has put it on a collision course with the government
The two men were unlikely candidates to work in the news business.
Neither had a background in journalism, but both were alarmed with the surge of misinformation in India that followed the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. To take on this problem, the men — both engineers — started Alt News in 2017.
Neither had a background in journalism, but both were alarmed with the surge of misinformation in India that followed the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. To take on this problem, the men — both engineers — started Alt News in 2017.
