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As a study published in Science magazine shows, fake news spreads six times faster than true news on Twitter. Pratik is optimistic about the AltNews app and is looking for people to help out with the technological aspects as well as for translation into local languages. more-inIn just the past three weeks, over 25 people have been lynched across India due to rumours spread through WhatsApp. So when Pratik Sinha (founder of the website AltNews.in) delivered a public lecture titled ‘The Fake News Epidemic’ at Vidyaranya High School recently, the hall was packed despite the evening rain. Until then, we can use Google reverse image search and the date filter to verify suspicious news items on a daily basis..