Hours after the Wire issued an apology to its readers over its controversial Meta stories, the Economist carried a piece on the website’s “own-goal” holding lessons for “opposition voices everywhere” while the Editors Guild of India withdrew its statement referring to the organisation’s Tek Fog reports.
The Wire is also likely to face a legal battle. BJP’s information technology cell head Amit Malviya Thursday said that he will file criminal charges against the Wire and also seek damages in a civil court for allegedly forging documents to “malign and tarnish” his reputation.
