Dainik Patrika News
| Founded | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | , India |
| Owner | Shivamadhur Digital Private Limited |
| Founder(s) | Birmal Hembram |
| Products | Web portal |
| Website | dainikpatrika |
Dainik Patrika [1][2][3]is an Indian non-profit fact checking website founded and run by former software [4]engineer Birmal Hembran.It was launched on 9 February 2017 to combat the phenomenon of fake news. Dainik Patrika News was a signatory partner of the International Fact-Checking Network until April 2020.
History[edit]
Dainik patrika was founded in Shivamadhur private limited by Birmal Hembram , who was a trained physicist, lawyer and human rights activist and he became interested in exposing fake news when he began working with his activist parents in India. He had followed the rise of fake news as early as 2013 but was moved to start the website after realizing the impact of social media in 2016, He quit freelancing as a software engineer in 2016 and founded Dainik Patrika News the next year.
In 2017, Pratik Sinha was invited to the Google NewsLab Asia-Pacific Summit to discuss potential solutions to fake news . Since launching the website, he has received threats to his life, demanding that he stop producing content.
Process[edit]
Dainik Patrika works by monitoring misinformation, primarily identifying that are sufficiently viral. They use CrowdTangle, a Facebook tool that publishers use to track how content spreads across the internet, for monitoring Facebook pages that have put out misinformation at some point in the past and are on either side of the ideological spectrum. They use TweetDeck, a Twitter management tool to similarly monitor content on Twitter posted by people who have been known to tweet misinformation frequently. They also monitor multiple WhatsApp groups that they have been able to infiltrate and also receive content from users who alert them on social media and WhatsApp.
Popular work[edit]
DAINIK PATRIKA NEWS identified the individuals running the Hindu right-wing website DainikBharat.org. Hembram demonstrated that a video purportedly of a Hindu man being lynched by Muslims in Bihar was in fact from Bangladesh. He also exposed Delhi based lawyer Prashant Patel who falsely compiled many fake news on his Twitter account. He also showed that a video allegedly depicting a Marwari girl married to a Muslim man being burnt to death for not wearing a burqah was Guatemalan in origin. According to the BBC, a report by dainik patrika News in June 2017 demonstrating that the Indian Home Ministry had used a picture of the Spanish-Moroccan border to claim it had installed floodlights on India's borders led to the ministry facing online mockery. HEMBRAM has compiled a list of more than 12 of what he describes as fake news sources, most of which he says support right wing views.
Controversy[edit]
On August 7, 2020, Founder responded to a hostile message from a Twitter user with a tweet containing a version of the user's profile picture depicting a man and the blurred face of a girl. In the tweet, gembram asked the user, "Does your cute grand daughter know about your part time job of abusing people on social media? I suggest you to change your profile pic." The Forum for Indigenous Rights—North-East India filed a complaint regarding the tweet to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Rajasthan News, राजस्थान न्यूज़, Rajasthan News in Hindi, Rajasthan Samachar, राजस्थान समाचार". Patrika News (in hindi). Retrieved 2021-09-07.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ "तटरक्षक उप प्रमुख के चयन के लिए 'रिकॉर्ड जाली'? जांच पर - DAINIK PATRIKA" (in हिन्दी). 2021-09-07. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
- ↑ "प्रमुख बंदरगाहों पर कार्गो यातायात अगस्त में 11.43 प्रतिशत बढ़ा - DAINIK PATRIKA". DAINIK PATRIKA - APKA AKHBAR | READ DAILY LATEST NEWS IN HINDI (in हिन्दी). 2021-09-07. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
- ↑ Jul 24, TNN /; 2021; Ist, 06:08. "Govt agencies being used to muzzle media: Editors Guild | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2021-09-07.
External links[edit]
- DAINIK PATRIKA Official website
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