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Razorpay shares AltNews donor data with police -Imran Ahmed Siddiqui

-The Telegraph

The development has the potential to intimidate donors who have been helping several news portals to stay afloat and hold the government accountable

Fact-checking website AltNews on Tuesday said Razorpay, the payment gateway through which it receives donations, had handed over the portal’s donor data to police.

The development has the potential to intimidate donors who have been helping several news portals to stay afloat and hold the government accountable. AltNews and its co-founders have been under attack for their relentless debunking of fake news and false claims peddled by Right-wing groups.

AltNews said Razorpay had deactivated its account for a few hours on Monday, “upon receiving a request from police authorities”, and it was restored later after getting “some clarity”.

“It has not been specified by them as to what this ‘clarity’ is,” AltNews said in a statement, adding that if Razorpay had indeed found that “we had violated their terms of services, they would not have reenabled our account”.

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