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News18 misreports SAARC and other nations join PM Modi-led effort to switch off lights, light candles

Pooja Chaudhuri6th April 202015th April 2020

In an April 5 broadcast, News18 India reported that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to switch off lights and ignite diyas received support from across the world. Apart from SAARC countries, Japan, Australia…

Police action on temple priest flouting lockdown in MP falsely communalised

Pooja Chaudhuri3rd April 20205th April 2020

A photograph of a policeman pinning down a Hindu priest has been widely shared by several prominent social media users. National spokesperson of Vishva Hindu Parishad, Vijay Shankar Tiwari, claimed…

Media misreports: Amitabh Bachchan did not share image of his hand with ‘home-quarantine’ stamp

Pooja Chaudhuri18th March 202018th March 2020

A widely reported news of March 18 claimed that Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan got a self-quarantine stamp on his hand. Below is a tweet by Delhi Times which says that Bachchan…

Media analysis: ANI’s skewed coverage of CAA protests abroad

Archit & Kinjal6th February 20206th February 2020

After the enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) on December 12, 2019, a wave of protests against the law began taking place in different parts of India. These were…

Top sportswomen made to push identical tweets to laud PM Modi on ‘women empowerment’

Alt News Desk27th October 201927th October 2019

“I thank @narendramodi for his initiative to honour and empower women this Diwali. Acknowledgement motivates us to work harder and make India proud. #bharatkilaxmi.” From Mary Kom to Pooja Dhanda,…

Media claims ‘Pakistani conspiracy’ behind trending #GoBackModi. What’s the truth?

Pratik Sinha & Pooja Chaudhuri12th October 201925th October 2019

In an October 11 ‘exclusive’ story, broadcast at around 3:30 PM, Times Now claimed that Pakistani social media accounts were behind trending the hashtag #GoBackModi ahead of the Prime Minister’s…

Facebook purge: The curious case of pages that did not feature in FB press release

Pooja Chaudhuri6th April 2019

On April 1, Facebook took down thousands of pages, groups and accounts from Facebook and Instagram, describing the crackdown as “removing coordinated inauthentic behaviour and spam from India and Pakistan.” Specifying…

India Today deletes article about ‘Amit Shah’s granddaughter refusing to wear BJP hat’

Jignesh Patel31st March 201931st March 2019

A video of Bharatiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah sharing candid moments with his granddaughter went viral on social media. To the amusement of social media users, Amit Shah was…

Will birds die as shown in ‘2.0’? Indian media falls for fake news from Netherlands

Pooja Chaudhuri7th December 201818th March 2019

The release of S Shankar’s ‘2.0’, a Tamil science fiction movie starring Rajnikanth and Akshay Kumar, sparked up a discourse on the effects of electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation on birds. The…

Patanjali’s chat app Kimbho runs into multiple controversies. How did top media houses report the news?

Arjun Sidharth2nd June 20189th July 2018

Kimbho, the messaging app launched with much fanfare by Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali became the subject of controversy barely a few hours after its launch. In a report dated May 31,…

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Nagpur factory blast killed 20 on March 1: How did five leading English news channels respond?

Times Now, ABP, Zee, Republic misreport 2020 Beirut video as Iranian missile strike in Dubai