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Wire-Meta saga: Editors Guild withdraws Tek Fog remarks, Economist points to 3 lessons from ‘own-goal’

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.

Newslaundry · Oct 28, 2022

Kanpur Prophet stir: One-sided media reports on ‘temple, enemy property’ now part of chargesheet

In his arrest and the accusation of supporting violent protests over the anti-Prophet remarks in Kanpur on June 3, a ghost from the past has come to haunt Mukhtar Baba, his family, and his biryani business.

Newslaundry · Oct 28, 2022

IT ministry notifies creation of Grievance Appellate Committee that will oversee content moderation decisions

Update at 7.47 pm, Oct 28: The IT ministry notified the amendments to the IT Rules 2021 on October 28. The headline to this report was changed to reflect that. No changes were made to the notified rules, so the text of this report remains the same.

Newslaundry · Oct 28, 2022

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BJP’s Amit Malviya to sue Wire over ‘forged documents to malign reputation’

BJP’s information technology cell head Amit Malviya has 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. This came hours after the news portal issued an apology to its readers a…

Newslaundry · Oct 27, 2022

Delhi: FIR filed after Rohingya child ‘beaten’ for ‘playing in the street’, damaging vehicle

A garage owner accused of “beating” a nine-year-old Rohingya refugee and two others in Delhi has a history of “assaulting” others, residents of a camp in Kalindi Kunj told Newslaundry on Wednesday.

Newslaundry · Oct 27, 2022

The Wire issues apology, cites ‘deception by a member of our Meta investigation team’

The Wire has issued an apology to its readers a week after retracting its controversial Meta stories. In a detailed statement issued early this morning, the news website said it had been deceived by a “member of our Meta investigation team”.

Newslaundry · Oct 27, 2022

Impolite Conversations: Negotiations with security laws

On September 10, Newslaundry and the Internet Freedom Foundation hosted FoE Con 2022, a forum that brought together media personalities and leading voices in the legal sphere to map the media and regulatory framework in contemporary India.

Newslaundry · Oct 25, 2022

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NL Playoffs Ep 29: T20 World Cup, Max Verstappen’s F1 win, Premier League

Newslaundry subscribers Aniketh Kalur and Gowtham Kode discuss the ongoing T20 World Cup, Max Verstappen winning the F1 championship, the Premier League, and more.

Newslaundry · Oct 22, 2022

TMR 2022: Sophie Zhang on not being allowed to testify before India's parliament

After two years of being hosted online, The Media Rumble 2022 took place in Delhi on October 14 and 15 where leading media professionals, policymakers, and tech innovators got together to discuss the future of news, tech and policy.

Newslaundry · Oct 22, 2022

Reporters Without Orders Ep 242: Wire vs Meta, India Ahead linked to Delhi liquor scam

This week, host Ayush Tiwari is joined by Newslaundry reporters Ashwine Kumar Singh and Aditi Agarwal.

Newslaundry · Oct 22, 2022

TV Newsance 190: Republic vs Times Now. Who won?

Indian news TV operates by the revenue logic of ads. And who gets how many ads is dictated by the logic of TRPs. So when BARC, the TRPs measurement agency, returned with its data earlier this year after a hiatus forced by the TRP scam, so did the barking on…

Newslaundry · Oct 22, 2022

Impolite Conversations: Court stories

Newslaundry · Oct 22, 2022

Bombay archbishop among 3 pastors booked in POCSO case

After several police complaints, a family’s months-long ordeal, and intervention by the country’s top human rights panel, three priests have finally been booked in a case filed in Pune under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The main accused remains absconding while two prominent priests have been accused…

Newslaundry · Oct 21, 2022

‘Stopped going to cops’: Delhi riots victim struggles to keep up pursuit of justice

Photographed wearing a blood-spattered kurta, his face scalded by acid, Mohammed Vakil Mansoori’s was one of the pictures that captured the brutalities of the 2020 Delhi carnage.

Newslaundry · Oct 21, 2022

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Newslaundry · Oct 20, 2022

Impolite Conversations: Lessons from the Emergency

Newslaundry · Oct 20, 2022

India’s domestic spy agency bought NSO hardware that matches Pegasus specifications

India’s Intelligence Bureau, the country’s main domestic intelligence agency, bought hardware from the Israeli spyware firm NSO Group that matches the description of equipment used elsewhere to deploy the company’s flagship Pegasus software, import documents show.

Newslaundry · Oct 20, 2022

Ghaziabad: One arrested after woman ‘gangraped, left tied in gunny bag’

One person has been arrested and four detained after a 38-year-old woman was allegedly abducted and gangraped in Ghaziabad four days ago.

Newslaundry · Oct 20, 2022

Expert take: Why was the Wire compelled to pull down its Meta stories?

After insisting for over a week that its reporting supposedly exposing how Meta allowed BJP leaders to censor content on its platforms was solid, the Wire on Tuesday pulled down the work pending a “thorough internal review of all material and documents and sources”.

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Newslaundry · Oct 20, 2022

Delhi High Court seeks response to Newslaundry’s plea against income tax notices

The Delhi High Court has sought a response on a petition filed by Newslaundry against the reassessment notices issued to it under the Income Tax Act for 2017-2018 and 2019-2020. The reassessment notice was issued on grounds that the assessment of income for these years was not done.

Newslaundry · Oct 18, 2022

Daily Dose Ep 1177: Umar Khalid denied bail, SC to hear plea on Bilkis Bano remissions

Jude Weston brings you the news from New Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, the Supreme Court, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom.

Newslaundry · Oct 18, 2022

The Wire will ‘suspend’ its Meta stories until it carries out ‘thorough internal review’: Siddharth Varadarajan

After receiving widespread criticism for its coverage of Meta’s XCheck programme, the Wire has decided to “suspend the stories” until it carries out a “thorough internal review of all material and documents and sources”, the portal’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan told Newslaundry.

Newslaundry · Oct 18, 2022

‘When media is independent, efforts are made to misuse it to propagate divisive ideas’: Rajnath Singh

Defence minister Rajnath Singh believes the media should be independent, but warns that “efforts are made to misuse it in the name of freedom of expression to establish and propagate dangerous and divisive ideas”.

Newslaundry · Oct 15, 2022

Reporters Without Orders Ep 241: #BoycottBollywood trend, Delhi education

This week, host Akanksha Kumar is joined by Pratyush Deep from Newslaundry and Kritika Goel, deputy editor at the Quint where she leads a fact-checking initiative.

Newslaundry · Oct 15, 2022

87 percent of editors and proprietors at India’s top newspapers are men

Eighty-seven percent of editors and proprietors at India’s top English and Hindi newspapers are men.

Newslaundry · Oct 15, 2022

Hafta 402: You ask, we answer – a special feedback episode

This week on NL Hafta, it’s an all-Newslaundry panel with Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, Raman Kirpal, Mehraj D Lone and Jayashree Arunachalam.

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