Indian media present UP govt ad in TIME as actual ‘report’ by the magazine
Several news channels including Zee News, ABP Ganga and News18 UP have telecasted news about TIME magazine appreciating Yogi Adityanath government’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis. It was a similar…
India TV’s Rajat Sharma falsely claims 190 countries pre-book India-made Covaxin
Editor-in-Chief and Chairman of India TV Rajat Sharma tweeted on January 3 that 190 countries have pre-booked COVID-19 vaccine developed by India. “The vaccine produced in our country is effective,…
Journalists or bots? Flurry of identical, erroneous tweets on PM Modi’s gurudwara visit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an unscheduled visit to gurudwara Rakab Ganj on Sunday, December 20, that started a flurry of activity among journalists. After being provided information about the…
“Too much democracy”: NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant denies what he stated twice
Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog, found himself in the middle of a controversy when he was quoted by Hindustan Times as saying, “Too much of democracy hampering reforms in…
PM Modi quotes selective data to paint a rosy picture of India’s COVID-19 response
“Lies, damned lies and statistics”. The phrase is often used to show that numbers have a persuasive power but when presented selectively they have the power to mislead. In his…
SP’s Azam Khan did not remark on Ram Mandir: News Track Live, Swarajya misreport
News portal News Track Live published an article that Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan has declared that he is a ‘Ram bhakt’ and treatened to take his life by…
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta quotes false WhatsApp forward in Supreme Court
On May 28, the Supreme Court heard the Suo Moto case regarding the plight of migrant labourers stranded in different parts of the country due to the lockdown. During the…
OpIndia’s article on ‘yellow journalism’ is a work of plagiarism
The outrage machinery went into operation soon after Kashmiri photographers, Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand were honoured with the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography for their coverage…
FIR against Sudhir Chaudhary no badge of honour, ‘jihad chart’ lifted from dubious page
Zee News editor-in-chief Sudhir Chaudhary tweeted on May 7, “Here’s my Pulitzer Prize for reporting the truth”, and shared a copy of an FIR filed against him. The FIR states…
BJP member Surendra Poonia falls for ‘oranges banned in Cyberabad’ satire
BJP member Major Surendra Poonia shared an image (archive) that looked like a newspaper front page with the headline, “Cyberabad Police bans the sale of oranges in the city”. Poonia…









