Media analysis

No, BBC did not criticize Chandrayaan 3. Old clip viral; false report by Times Now, India TV, Zee News & other outlets

Indradeep Bhattacharyya25th August 202325th August 2023

In a historic first, India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft’s Vikram lander touched down near the moon’s little-explored south pole at 6.04 pm on August 23. Following the incident, a clip from a…

Zee News falsely describes Bajrang Dal’s Ashok Baba, seen firing in Nuh violence video, as plain-clothed cop

Abhishek Kumar8th August 2023

(Note: The author of this article is affiliated with professional shooting sports.) Against the backdrop of the recent communal clashes in Haryana’s Nuh, a video of a man in a…

Manipur shocker: Misreport by ANI sets off false communal claim; Abdul Hilim’s arrest not related to viral video case

Oishani Bhattacharya21st July 202321st July 2023

Late on July 19, a video from violence-stricken Manipur surfaced on social media with disturbing visuals of two women being paraded naked by a huge mob and some of the…

Cyclone Biparjoy: Republic anchor’s antics symptomatic of everything that’s wrong with Indian TV media

Indradeep Bhattacharyya15th June 202316th June 2023

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…

Paharganj video: Woman slit own wrist after altercation with friend; Sudarshan News added ‘Jihad’ twist

Kalim Ahmed13th June 2023

A 33-second long video in which a mob is roughing up a young man while a woman with her wrist slit stands next to him is viral on social media…

Groom beaten up for dowry demand: Scripted comedy video shared by news channels, journalists

Oishani Bhattacharya11th May 2023

A video has gone viral on social media, in which a man dressed as a groom is being beaten up with a sandal by an elderly man who is supposedly…

News channels falsely run CCTV clip of Odisha man as gangster Guddu Muslim

Vansh Shah10th May 202310th May 2023

Several mainstream media channels have telecast the CCTV footage of a man in a white shirt claiming that he is Guddu Muslim, an accused in the high-profile Umesh Pal murder…

Bulandshahr blast: Sudarshan News, RW handles falsely claim house belonged to a Muslim

Abhishek Kumar3rd April 2023

On March 31, a blast rocked a house in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, leaving several people dead. Sharing the news, many media outlets, Right Wing influencers and journalists tweeted that the…

Scripted video of two men marrying one woman viral; media outlets report on ‘unique wedding’

Vansh Shah21st March 202321st March 2023

A video has gone viral which apparently shows two men marrying the same woman at the same time. Twitter Blue subscriber Mohammad Tanvir shared the video with a caption in…

Media misreport: Nobel committee member did not say Modi biggest contender for Peace Prize

Shinjinee Majumder17th March 20239th September 2025

X users like IDU (which is purportedly an acronym for Indian Defence Updates) (handle: @defencealerts) and India War Monitor (@IndiaWarMonitor) have shared a clipping from a Times Now bulletin and…