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= Youturn.in =

Youturn.in is a fact checkin g website in India. While it is best known for debunking internet rumours, mail forwards, misleading contents and other questionable pictures or videos or stories. In this era of fake news and paid news, Youturn is keenly working to seek and remove the fake news that are spread by sheer weight of money/political network. Youturn stays unique by not only spotting such fake news but also by replacing it with a validated proof.

History
In March 2017, Vignesh Kalidasan and Iyan Karthikeyan founded Youturn website as a way to remove such weeds out and filters the truth in social media. The name Youturn - It asks/make people turn with the verified news who are behind the fake ones. Youturn is a Facebook page that brings out the truth behind such fake news through fun and satirical memes and posts. Adding to it, the meme posts and explanation of the posts are being published in Youturn's website.

Awards and Honours
Youturn has been awarded as "Best Facebook Infotainment Page" by DESI (Digital Excellence of South India) organised by the team Smile Settai in the year of 2017. (Link if any)

Youturn had been invited to deliver awareness speech on fake news at TEDX TALK, Coimbatore. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Iyan Karthikeyan has presented on how to fight back against the fake news that are infecting our information feeds on social media and political systems.