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    Shinjinee Majumder & Mahaprajna Nayak

    Victim blaming on social media: How Shraddha murder case exposed the patriarchal core of Right Wing

    1st December 2022
    Inter-faith relationships between Hindu women and Muslim men have been a sore point for the Indian Right Wing for decades. The alleged defiance of traditional norms and customs by Hindu...
    Victim blaming on social media: How Shraddha murder case exposed the patriarchal core of Right Wing
    Abhishek Kumar

    Aaj Tak, India TV, Jagran fell for Elon Musk’s joke; Twitter didn’t hire back two fired employees

    23rd November 202223rd November 2022
    Right after Elon Musk took over the reins of microblogging site Twitter, the organization carried out large-scale lay-offs. While many social media users made memes poking fun at the development,...
    Aaj Tak, India TV, Jagran fell for Elon Musk’s joke; Twitter didn’t hire back two fired employees

    News channels, BJP leaders’ claim that UPA got St. George’s Cross back on Navy flag is false

    Abhishek Kumar16th September 202217th September 2022

    On September 2, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the new flag of the Indian Navy in Kochi. The St George’s Cross was removed from the erstwhile flag and it was…

    Media houses shared unrelated video from MP as sadhus beaten up for child theft in Maharashtra

    Kinjal15th September 2022

    In the past few weeks, there have been multiple reports of people getting attacked across the country over rumours of child kidnapping. This wave of rumours began circulating after a…

    NDTV, Hindustan Times share 4-yr-old video as footage from Sept 11 Papua New Guinea earthquake

    Shinjinee Majumder13th September 2022

    A video of an earthquake is being circulated widely on social media as footage of the 7.6-magnitude quake that hit Papua New Guinea, an island nation in the southwestern Pacific…

    News Nation aired old videos as visuals of destruction caused by typhoon Hinnamnor

    Kalim Ahmed9th September 202210th September 2022

    Typhoon Hinnamnor has ravaged parts of Japan and South Korea in the last few days. As per ABC News Australia, in Japan’s southern region, more than hundred people were evacuated…

    Zee Hindustan gives communal spin to video of elderly woman tortured in Pakistan over land dispute

    Abhishek Kumar1st September 2022

    A video of a woman being dragged by a man is circulating widely on social media. The footage also shows several people, including some women, holding her by the hair…

    News outlets leave out torture accused Seema Patra’s BJP connection in their tweets

    Shinjinee Majumder & Kalim Ahmed31st August 202231st August 2022

    A video of a tribal woman, who worked as a domestic help in Jharkhand, accusing her employers of brutal torture and abuse has surfaced online. In the video, the victim,…

    News channels air old video of Pak fans breaking TV sets as visuals after loss to India in Asia Cup

    Abhishek Kumar31st August 202231st August 2022

    On August 28, India defeated Pakistan by five wickets in the 2022 Asia Cup. Against this backdrop, media channels aired a video of a group of young men destroying a…

    Fact-checking Times Now’s dispatch presenting a local politician as a cleric of a Jammu mosque

    Kalim Ahmed14th August 202217th August 2022

    On August 10, Time Now tweeted a video report by journalist Pradeep Dutta. The entire report is shot within the confinement of a mosque where an alleged cleric of the…

    Media channels air an old clip of a landslide as recent visuals from Nashik

    Abhishek Kumar22nd July 2022

    On July 13, media outlets reported a landslide occurrence near Gujarat’s Saputara region. As per the reports the landslide occurred on July 11 and disrupted the road connectivity to the…

    Sudhir Chaudhary on his new show on Aaj Tak featured a quote often falsely credited to Mark Twain

    Abhishek Kumar21st July 202222nd July 2022

    Two weeks ago, journalist and news anchor Sudhir Chaudhary announced his resignation from his post as CEO of Zee Media to start his own venture. Following this, it was revealed…

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