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Food Corporation of India fact-checks Scroll, calls out its deliberately misleading report claiming 65 lakh tonnes food grains wasted amid lockdown
The FCI has slammed Scroll after the latter published a report claiming that India had let 65 lakh tonnes of grains go to waste.
Media reports that TRAI has recommended moving to 11-digit mobile number system, TRAI says it is fake news
While TRAI recommended adding 0 before the number while calling mobile from landline, media misinterpreted it as new 11 digit number system
Opposition leaders and leftist journalists circulate fake news about substandard PPE kits at AIIMS Delhi, PIB calls out the lie
Journalist Runjhun Sharma had falsely claimed that AIIMS doctors were provided with substandard N-95 and PPE kits
TOI publishes fake news about ‘Maharashtra model’ receiving national praise, twice: Read details here
In April, TOI had used a press briefing from Uddhav Thackeray's office to claim that the IMCT team visiting Mumbai had praised the 'Worli-Koliwada Model'. It was also endorsed by Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi.
Rana Ayyub shares Hindustan Times report to claim a child’s death in Bihar was due to ‘starvation’, gets fact-checked by Indian Railways
Hindustan Times had published an article dated May 27, 2020, titled: "Migrants’ kid dies as father hunts for milk at railway station", claiming that a four-and-a-half-year-old son of migrants from Bihar based in Delhi died of hunger at the railway station on arrival by a ‘Shramik Special’ train.
Journalist Rana Ayyub lies, shares a video on Instagram to claim a passenger on-board Shramik train had died of hunger
The Railways sources have clarified that the woman was suffering from a prolonged illness
Fact Check: The Wire’s Rohini Singh lies about ventilators received in donation by Gujarat government
The Press Information Bureau claimed that the ventilators were in accordance with the required quality standards and were received as donation by Gujarat government
Amidst lockdown and migrant crisis, Congress spokesperson shares an image from Nepal as that of India to play politics over misery of the poor
The Congress leader from Harayana wanted to suggest that the condition of people in the 'New India', the India that is not ruled by his party anymore, is miserable.
Former MP and journalist Shahid Siddiqui shares 2016 video from Bangladesh as that of India’s migrant crisis
Shahid Siddiqui had also claimed that such a miserable state of a person can only happen in a country like India.
Watch out : ‘Fact checkers’ are trying to claim the fake moral space that big media lost
Welcome to the new reality of the media landscape. All the goodness of old propaganda journalism, cleverly re-branded as “fact checking.”
