India's telecom regulatory commission says there are more than one billion active mobile phone connections in India, and millions of Indians have started getting online in a very short space of time. Rumours spread further and faster," Pratik Sinha, the founder of Altnews. They tend to believe whatever is sent to them.
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Mr Sinha is one of a handful of people trying to "fight" the scourge of fake news in India. Formerly a software engineer, he now runs Altnews fulltime, funding it with his own savings and ad revenue. Altnews fact checks viral stories circulating on social media and WhatsApp, verifies photographs and videos and also calls out stories by media organisations that may be based on fake news. Stories he has debunked include a viral video claiming to show a Hindu girl being lynched by a Muslim mob.
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The video, Mr Sinha says, regularly does the rounds on WhatsApp with a plea to the receiver to send on the message with the hope that authorities will be pressurised into taking action. But the video though horrific, is actually of a Guatemalan girl being beaten by a mob and is two years old. In fact a majority of the videos, Mr Sinha has said , seem to be propagated by people with hardline sensibilities and many have an "anti-Muslim" slant.
Part of the challenge, he adds, is that WhatsApp, which is the main medium of fake news in India, is "like a mutating virus". What that means is every message sent between two parties has a unique set of keys, regardless of whether it is the same message being passed on. This means that when fake news happens, there is no trail.
It becomes tough for even WhatsApp to track. The other issue, according to Durga Raghunath, an Indian digital expert, is that people don't question sources on social networks or messaging apps. Many of the issues people see on these platforms have an emotional connect, and because the information comes to us via family and friends, the inclination to double check is very low," she told the BBC. Pankaj Jain, the man behind verification site SM Hoax slayer , knows this better than most.
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He told the BBC that his inspiration to bust hoaxes were the "stupid rumours" he kept receiving on WhatsApp. He came to prominence after becoming one of the first people to shoot down a viral news story which claimed that India's new 2, rupee note was embedded with a "nano GPS chip" that allowed authorities to track it if it was taken outside the country. His other notable "busts" include proving that a photograph tweeted out by a leading news channel purporting to be of two "terrorists" killed in Indian-administered Kashmir was actually a two-year-old photograph from Punjab, and more recently, explaining that a viral WhatsApp forward of the Indian flag flying atop the Israeli parliament only happened on Photoshop.
Shammas Oliyath, who runs the verification site Check4spam. His content is divided into several categories such as "internet rumours" and "promotions", but he says most of the news he deals with tends to be politically related.
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He gets about WhatsApp inquiries a day, a number that has picked up after he got a little publicity for forcing a media organisation to retract a story which claimed that the assets of wanted Indian gangster Dawood Ibrahim had been frozen. Despite their best efforts however, all three men know that they simply cannot take on the exploding fake news system on their own. Mr Sinha says Altnews has done roughly 3.
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