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India Misinformed: The True Story
Pratik Sinha, Dr Sumaiya Shaikh and Arjun Sidharth
HarperCollins, Rs 399, 270 pages
Alt News was launched in 2017 by software engineer Pratik Sinha to counter the menace of fake news, a global phenomenon that has been exacerbated by the spread of social media. Major events of this decade, from Donald Trump’s election to Brexit to India’s turn towards the right after 2014, have been variously attributed, at least in part, to the dissemination of fake news.
Mr Sinha and colleagues have now compiled their major findings since the website’s founding into the book under
