Acting on two specific complaints, the News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA) has come down heavily on Zee News and Times Now Navbharat over reports on ‘Mehendi Jihad’ and…
Operation Sindoor: Grief on the ground, glory on TV screens
Trigger Warning: The story has details of deaths, including those of minors; reader’s discretion advised. “National media showed what they had to. Our endeavour is to give you our version…
Op Sindoor: As Indian media made false, outrageous claims, PIB looked the other way
The second week of May was a busy time for fact-checkers at Union government’s Press Information Bureau (PIB) as it put out 68 fact-checks related to Operation Sindoor. While examining…
Hate crimes in Haryana, Maharashtra a no-show on Republic; how did the other mainstream news channels fare?
Trigger Warning: Violence In the last week of August, two horrific hate crimes against Muslims — the lynching of 25-year-old Sabir Malik in Haryana and the brutal assault on 72-year-old…
Cyclone Biparjoy: Republic anchor’s antics symptomatic of everything that’s wrong with Indian TV media
Even before cyclone Biparjoy (literally, ‘disaster’) made landfall in Gujarat, news anchor Sweta Tripathi had taken Indian television news by storm on Wednesday night. Republic Bharat, the channel where she…
Devesh Kumar: Untangling a complex web of lies and deceit
On October 30, 2022, The Wire registered a police complaint against journalist Devesh Kumar for allegedly fabricating and supplying documents, emails, and video with a view to damage the media…
Did Gehlot drink charanamrit with mask on? No, BJP leaders shared clipped video
A number of BJP functionaries are criticizing Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot while sharing a 5-second video in which Gehlot is being offered charanamrit by a temple priest and the…
UP police debunks claim that Hindus offered namaz at LuLu Mall
On July 10, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated LuLu Mall in Lucknow. The grand opening witnessed a footfall of over one lakh people. Two days later, on July…
Jilted boyfriend kills woman, incident given false communal shade online
A 30-second long video clip where a youth can be seen stabbing a young woman is widely being shared with the claim that in West Bengal’s Murshidabad, a Muslim boy…
Hindu shops razed but ‘Zakir’ left untouched? Times Now Navbharat’s communal reportage
Communal clashes broke out during a Hanuman Jayanti procession on April 16 in New Delhi’s Jahangirpuri area. Following the violence, on April 20, North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) bulldozed several…