Amid claims that Alt News cofounder Mohammad Zubair received donations in his personal account and the organisation took money from countries such as Pakistan in violation of the law, the fact-checking website on Monday said the claims are “categorically false” and called them “an attempt to shut down the critical work that we do”.
Zubair, who was arrested last month over a four-year-old Twitter post but is now facing other charges such as destruction of evidence and violation of the Foreign Contribution Act, was earlier accused – by the police and through uncorroborated reports in several sections of the media – of receiving lakhs of rupees.
