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Media Lies List

Media

Times of India misquotes Modi’s cook, changes web story after getting called out

OpIndia Staff - 30 December, 2018

After the brouhaha, TOI quietly altered the article and issued a clarification in the print edition the next day.

Media

Reuters quoted ‘source’ to say Modi govt will waive farmer loans on a day Union Minister said there was no such plan

OpIndia Staff - 13 December, 2018

While it is not clear why Reuters did such reporting, people were speculating this could be a fake news spread by the Congress-friendly media on behest of Congress to pressurise Modi government.

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‘Journalists’ and politicians spread lies about RBI Deputy Governor’s resigning following Urjit Patel’s exit

OpIndia Staff - 10 December, 2018

"Journalists" started rumour-mongering about the resignation of RBI Deputy Governor Viral Acharya soon after Governor Urjit Patel resigned citing personal reasons

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Fact Check: Congress and The Wire spread falsehoods about Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana

Ashutosh Kulkarni - 3 December, 2018

If in spite of loan waivers by three big states, the farmers under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana drop by mere 84 lakh out of whopping 5.72 crores, isn’t it an indicator that the scheme is still alive and kicking?

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Media and Congress spread lies about Railways tender won by Reliance Jio

Shantanu - 1 December, 2018

Airtel's interpretation of the clause, as claimed by The Indian Express, is wrong as they compare monthly tariffs instead of data rates (price per GB).

Economy and Finance

The Wire comes up with flawed logic to rubbish new methodology which slashed growth rates of Congress regime

Chitra sharma - 1 December, 2018

The reasons given by the article by The Wire more amusing as it clearly showed their lack of understanding of data, statistic and above all, of economics.

Media

Wikileaks to sue Guardian for publishing fabricated story claiming Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy

OpIndia Staff - 29 November, 2018

WikiLeaks has even demanded the editor-in-chief to resign owing to the back-pedalling on the story, WikiLeaks claims to be false.

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The Wire misreports survey to show Rahul Gandhi is preferred over PM Narendra Modi by MP voters

Shashank Bharadwaj - 28 November, 2018

The Wire has used the data of these pre-election surveys and blatantly used to propagate Rahul Gandhi's fake ratings, while the actual survey predicts the opposite.

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