Media analysis

Old video of people fighting over sack of wheat shared as current food crisis in Pakistan

Kalim Ahmed14th January 2023

A 41-second long video clip where four individuals can be seen getting into a physical tussle over a sack of wheat is going viral on social media as visuals from…

The Kashmir Files has not been shortlisted for Oscars 2023; claims by film crew, media false

Shinjinee Majumder12th January 202312th January 2023

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) recently released a Reminder List of productions eligible for the 95th Academy Awards. The list consists of 301 films which include…

Delhi ASI murder accused is Anish Raj, not Mohd Anish, as claimed by media

Kalim Ahmed10th January 202310th January 2023

On January 4, a 57-year-old Delhi Police assistant sub-inspector (ASI), Shambhu Dayal, was stabbed multiple times while trying to nab a man accused of snatching a phone earlier that day….

BJP leaders, media outlets shared unrelated photos as Vande Bharat vandalism

Abhishek Kumar10th January 202310th January 2023

On December 30, Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually flagged off the Vande Bharat Express connecting Howrah to New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal. Three days later, there were reports of stone…

Old photo shared as traffic jam near Atal tunnel after Christmas 2022

Vansh Shah29th December 2022

In the days following Christmas, various media outlets, including Times Of India and Hindustan Times, reported a massive rush of tourists in Himachal Pradesh. As per reports, 19,000 vehicles passed…

Media outlets got it wrong; Messi hugging woman after WC final is not his mom

Abhishek Kumar26th December 2022

A video of Argentine football player Lionel Messi embracing a woman on the field has been making the rounds on social media recently. It has been claimed that the woman…

No, 22-yr-old man didn’t ‘marry’ 52-yr-old woman; news outlets fell for scripted video

Vipul Kumar15th December 2022

Multiple mainstream media outlets recently carried the news that a 21/22-year-old man had married a 52-year-old woman. The ‘reports’ did not have any detail about the newlyweds but had a…

No, Israeli filmmaker neither took back comments on ‘The Kashmir Files’, nor called it ‘brilliant’

Kalim Ahmed2nd December 20223rd December 2022

During the closing ceremony of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa on November 28, jury head Nadav Lapid, an Israeli filmmaker, described the film ‘The Kashmir Files’…

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

Shinjinee Majumder & Mahaprajna Nayak1st 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…

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

Abhishek Kumar23rd 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,…