
Social media isn’t really the place to parse fact from fiction. And sections of social media users – many who purchased the “blue tick” on X – are doing their best to populate websites with wild theories.
The latest is against Alt News fact-checker Mohammed Zubair, who’s constantly in the rightwing’s crossfire. This time, a video claims he “sexually abused” co-inmates when he was imprisoned at Sitapur jail. After it was widely shared online, Zubair trended on X, formerly Twitter, for three days.