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Watch out : ‘Fact checkers’ are trying to claim the fake moral space that big media lost

Abhishek Banerjee - 17 May, 2020

Welcome to the new reality of the media landscape. All the goodness of old propaganda journalism, cleverly re-branded as “fact checking.”

News Reports

Elite Left journalists assert changing cities for education and jobs akin to ‘migration’, call themselves ‘migrant workers’

Jinit Jain - 9 May, 2020

Privileged left liberal journalists have started identifying themselves as 'migrants' as a ruse to attack the Modi government amidst the double whammy of migrant crisis and coronavirus outbreak

News Reports

Media says Markaz video of Maulana Saad was ‘doctored’ by a Tablighi Jamaat member: An attempt to save Maulana Saad?

OpIndia Staff - 9 May, 2020

A report published in Indian Express claims that the video where Markaz Nizamuddin head Maulana Saad Kandhalvi of Tablighi Jamaat condemned social distancing may be 'doctored'.

Opinions

After taking life of a baby at Shaheen Bagh, liberals using unborn child for propaganda

Abhishek Banerjee - 6 May, 2020

The rhetoric of victimhood got turbocharged when some internet trolls got into discussing Safoora Zargar's marital status.

Fact-Check

Bollywood entertainer Richa Chadha wants RBI to ‘write off’ everyone’s EMI. Here is why it is not possible, ever

OpIndia Staff - 29 April, 2020

The Reserve Bank of India doesn't write off loans. It is the banks that write off the loans that are granted by them. And write off does not mean waive off.

News Reports

MEA slams USCIRF for spreading false propaganda over the treatment of coronavirus patients in Gujarat

OpIndia Staff - 16 April, 2020

In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs asked the USCIRF to stop adding "religious colour" to the Indian government's efforts in fighting the Chinese pandemic.

Media Fact-Check

‘Muslim men, women and children were chased out of their homes’: Here is how The Wire spread fake news blatantly

OpIndia Staff - 13 April, 2020

Hoshiarpur Police uploaded a video on its official Twitter page, debunking fake news about Muslim families being harassed as peddled by 'The Wire'

Fact-Check

Assorted fake news peddlers come together to spread lies that woman drowned her five children in river ‘due to lockdown’

OpIndia Staff - 13 April, 2020

While the country has come together to fight Chinese coronavirus, a certain section of propagandists are rooting for the government's efforts to fail.

Opinions