Pratik Sinha
Pratik Sinha is the founder of Altnews.in, a fact checking website. His fact-checking work has made him one of the most well known voices in India in the sphere of tackling fake news.[1][2][3] He is a former software engineer, who in 2017 decided to devote his life to fighting "fake news".[4]
Background
Pratik Sinha was formerly a software engineer by profession, with his area of concentration being in wireless and embedded systems. He was based out of Vietnam.[3][5] On returning to India, he launched a website called Truth of Gujarat.[5] He is also a member of Jan Sangharsh Manch,[6] a Gujarat based organisation which was co-founded by his father, Mukul Sinha, who was a lawyer and human rights activist who fought mainly for communal riot victims.[7][8]
Career
Pratik Sinha founded Altnews.in in February 2017 as an alternate news platform rather than a fact checking website. But during that time, due to an increase of fake news, the focus became fact-checking and to fight "deliberate underground political propaganda".[9][10] Altnews has been set up as a non-profit and is funded through donations. Prominent donors have included Arundhati Roy's trust as reported in Rediff.com.[5] Since launching the website, he has received threats to his life, demanding that he stop producing content.[11][12] In 2017, Pratik Sinha was invited to the Google NewsLab Asia-Pacific Summit to discuss potential solutions to fake news.[9]
Views
Pratik Sinha has been quoted saying, "I have an ideological leaning. I am oriented towards the left", but he goes on to say he has no political leaning.[5]
Publications
Pratik Sinha along with the Altnews team have written and edited a book titled "India Misinformed: The True Story" published by HarperCollins which will be available in March 2019.[13][14]
References
- ↑ Sharma, Ritwik (11 May 2018). "How Pratik Sinha has become the most prominent crusader against fake news". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ↑ "In conversation with Alt News' Pratik Sinha on the fake news phenomenon". The Hindu. 21 January 2019. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dhara, Tushar (8 March 2019). "Alt News co-founder Pratik Sinha on the fake-news ecosystem in India". The Caravan. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ↑ Agrawal, Ravi (2018-10-01). India Connected: How the Smartphone is Transforming the World's Largest Democracy. Oxford University Press. p. 130. ISBN 9780190858674.CS1 maint: Date and year (link) Search this book on
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Manish, Sai (8 April 2018). "Busting fake news: Who funds whom?". Rediff. Business Standard. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ↑ "The Media Rumble". The Media Rumble (Newslaundry). Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ↑ Sen, Shreeja (12 May 2014). "Gujarat riots activist Mukul Sinha dies at 63". livemint.com. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
- ↑ Janmohamed, Zahir. "Mukul Sinha, self-effacing Modi opponent and labour organiser who disliked being called a leader". scroll.in. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Sengupta, Saurya (1 July 2017). "On the origin of specious news". Retrieved 7 November 2017 – via The Hindu.
- ↑ Dhawan, Himanshi (15 May 2017). "Breaking fake news". The Times of India. Retrieved 2019-03-14.
- ↑ "News website owner gets threat call from 'gangster'". The Indian Express. 10 March 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ↑ "Mukul Sinha's son gets threat call from 'Pujari'". The Times of India. Retrieved 9 November 2017.
- ↑ IANS (2019-02-22). "Upcoming book to lay bare propaganda of misinformation and hoaxes". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
- ↑ "HarperCollins India presents India Misinformed: A True Story by Pratik Sinha, Sumaiya Shaikh and Arjun Sidharth". HarperCollins India. 2019-02-22. Retrieved 2019-03-13.
External links
- Anju Grover (11 March 2019). Interview With Pratik Sinha. Indian Currents
- Pratik Sinha on Twitter
- Pratik Sinha on Facebook
- Truth Of Gujarat website
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