Media Fact-Check

The police was called by the bride's family due to an old dispute between Dalit and OBC communities.

Several reports attempted to give casteist color to the matter as they said that the 'Casteists' crushed the huts of the victims with a tractor and destroyed their crops. However, Yadavs claim that the Sahariya family hit them with an axe.

Tesla helped provide critical security footage of the vehicle at charging stations and other useful data to the authorities.

The Indian Express report was published on the 13th Page of its newspaper. On the 1st of January, the news publication retracted its propaganda story and published a “correction” instead of apology.

False claim of caste discrimination spread by media, Rana Ayyub and others after a Dalit boy dies by suicide after humiliation by boys from same community in UP.

Smriti Irani criticised Rahul Gandhi’s earlier temple politics, suggesting his recent focus on caste issues is a tactical move to gain media coverage after his previous efforts failed.

She lauded a post by Sultan Mohammed Zakaria, which contained misleading videos of Indian dams to claim that India released water from the Dumbur Dam causing floods in Bangladesh. Interestingly, this very post, which Farhana Sultana called a “spot-on analysis” was debunked by DW News.

Several media outlets reported on the Modi-Biden conversation, with most presenting the news as it was, clearly indicating that Joe Biden was the one who called PM Narendra Modi. However, the Indian Express insinuated that it was Modi who initiated the call to the US President.

Left-wing portals including The Wire, Quint, Maktoob Media, and The Kashmiriyat gave a communal angle to the whole incident and tried to spread animosity between the two communities. 

Media houses spread false news that TRAI has suggested imposing a penalty for having two SIMs in a phone with an unused SIM