Zubair vs the fake news machine: A day of digital warfare after Operation Sindoor From busting Pakistani disinfo accounts to correcting Indian journalists, fact-checker Mohammed Zubair led the charge online, alongside a flurry of PIB rebuttals. Mohammed Zubair is a co-founder of the fact-checking website AltNews More than two years after the Supreme Court granted bail and ordered “immediate release” of Mohammed Zubair from prison ... Mohammed Zubair is an Indian journalist and co-founder of Alt News, a fact-checking website. He was arrested in 2022 for a tweet about a Hindu leader's remarks on Muhammad and faced legal issues for his criticism of Hindutva extremists. Facts The petitioner, Mohammed Zubair , was a co-founder of ALT News, a fact-checking website run under the authority of the Pravda Media Foundation. The petitioner used the social media platform Twitter as a medium of communication to dispel false news and misinformation being spread through morphed images, clickbait and tailored videos.
