The Fact Pro : The Facts We Always Wanted To Know 

The news — we used to trust it if it was on screen or in print. We believed it, but a few years ago the lies online started to look really realistic — phony websites with convincing stories shared by your friends and family on social media. The age of Internet dawned on us with the promise of liberation, connecting millions together and providing a platform for each and as a side effect the fake fact era was born. Amidst this fiasco of adulterated facts, unnecessary hype over meaningless products and the over-flooded cesspool of information Internet had become young Gopal Dutt Vashisht felt the need to highlight facts and figures that went unnoticed — things everyone ignored despite the importance they held.

The twenty-year old Gopal, who is currently pursuing engineering from Bhagwan Parshuram Institute of Technology created The Fact Pro in October 2016. The vision was to amalgamate knowledge and entertainment in such a way that even a layman would enjoy learning and would easily gulp down the entire information served to them on a platter. Gopal projected to create a jaw-dropping experience by presenting unknown facts and national news with his take on it and had his readers hooked by constantly feeding them regular updates, asking their opinions and keeping them engaged with the accuracy of content and information.

When asked to comment upon the authenticity of the facts Gopal explained that he has a much layered procedure for making sure that every post is fact-checked, he further added that if he suspects that he might be dealing with a piece of made-up information he either checks for a reliable source or discards the post completely as The Fact Pro cannot lose its credibility. Gopal often takes relevant and incomprehensible information from NGOs, think-tanks, journals, specialized magazines and media and tries to make it approachable. The information is then cross verified with various sources and hence the final news and facts are published.

During the interview Gopal recalled the very early days of The Fact Pro as he said he was not very sure what will be the future of this page and how will the audience react to a young boy trying to make a difference but with over a following of 880,000 followers it’s safe to say that his dedication towards the page has finally paid off as it now reaches over 19 million people every week, organically.

The one-man army recently introduced a contest called Showcase Your Talent which is open to all and everyone can present their talent in short videos of 15 seconds which then is featured on the page’s Story section. Gopal said that this initiative has helped build an opportunity for creators to have their content be published on a huge platform and cater to a larger audience and the audience is being inspired and encouraged to participate thus creating forming a community of talented people.

Having turned into a massive success and a social media influencer Gopal hopes that his initiative inspires masses and forces them to fact-check every piece of information they read before believing it blindly and by understanding the fact that one does not need to be an influencer to cause a change or a reform, one just has to initiate. He wishes that The Fact Pro reaches many more and in two years’ time it becomes a media publishing company.

The world we live in is not as normal as it seems, weird events tend to take place every day, all around the world, and somewhere in over flow of information some of the best news and facts go unnoticed without batting an eye, and all we need to be is curious just like Gopal. Find facts, make sure they are authentic and share them with the world, you will discover things that will keep you astonished for weeks.