Right vs Wrong: Arundhati Roy, Mohandas Pai funding fake news busters

Left-leaning Alt News received donations from Roy's trust and Mohandas Pai is a shareholder in right-leaning OpIndia

While the Narendra Modi government at the Centre burnt its fingers over an unsuccessful attempt to 'rein in' mainline media over alleged fake news dissemination, India’s nascent fake news busting business is finding high-profile takers. Three of them – OpIndia, Alt News and BOOM – stand out prominently for the intensity of their coverage and the hawk (if sometimes jaundiced) eye they keep on fact-checking news and calling out the so-called fake news.

Writer-activist Arundhati Roy’s trust donated to the left-leaning Alt News, while Manipal Global Education Chairman T V Mohandas Pai and Infosys founder N R Narayana