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Hafta 519: Meta and fact-checking, the role of journaling, social media as source of news

This week on Hafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Jayashree Arunachalam, and Manisha Pande are joined by author Amitava Kumar and academic Joyojeet Pal.

Newslaundry · Jan 11, 2025

‘A rudderless ship, if not a sinking one’: Editorials are grim on future of INDIA bloc

All is not well with the INDIA alliance as Delhi goes to the polls, where supposed partners Congress and Aam Aadmi Party will contest separately. 

Newslaundry · Jan 11, 2025

TV Newsance 281: There’s a new (anti) Godi media candidate in town

The new year is here and yet here we are, worrying about the same old rot in the world of news. 

Newslaundry · Jan 11, 2025

After Meta pullout, fact-checking partners anticipate job cuts, editorials point to global ripples

Meta’s decision this week to abandon its fact-checking programme, starting from the US, has reportedly triggered alarm bells among several fact-checking organisations. That the move comes as a response to the politics of the new regime in the US has also been apparent.

Newslaundry · Jan 10, 2025

NL-TNM Townhall: Sreenivasan Jain on US poll coverage

Last year, we visited the US amid a heated poll campaign, days after reporting on the Israel-Hamas war. At the Townhall on December 5 last year, award-winning journalist Sreenivasan Jain and Newslaundry producer Priyali Dhingra responded to a wide range of questions from contributors who had supported this coverage.

Newslaundry · Jan 9, 2025

L-G empowers 23 Delhi cops to issue takedown orders: Report

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has empowered at least 23 Delhi Police officers to issue “takedown orders” to social media platforms and other intermediaries to remove “illegal content” under the Information Technology Act, Hindustan Times reported.

Newslaundry · Jan 9, 2025

Jan 9, 2025: Aaj Ka AQI from union minister Amit Shah’s residence

Aaj Ka AQI is a new show aimed at fixing accountability for a solution to India’s air crisis. For episode 12, Newslaundry went to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s residence on Thursday. 

Newslaundry · Jan 9, 2025

SC grants interim relief to Telugu actor Mohan Babu in journalist assault case

The Supreme Court on Thursday granted interim relief from coercive action to Telugu actor and former Rajya Sabha member Mohan Babu in the case involving allegations of assaulting a news reporter, according to Bar and Bench.

Newslaundry · Jan 9, 2025

82 cities used less than 66% of NCAP funds in the last 5 years to combat pollution

If you’ve ever lived in north India during the winter and struggled to breathe, you’re likely familiar with the acronym NCAP – the National Clean Air Programme. Launched by the environment ministry, it sets clear air targets for 131 cities that are required to reduce particulate concentration in the air.

Newslaundry · Jan 9, 2025

‘Israel intentionally wiping out a generation of medics’: Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Gaza

After surviving the first deadly explosion at Gaza’s Al-Ahli Arab Hospital on October 17, 2023, it became obvious to British-Palestinian reconstructive surgeon Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah that “the destruction and the systematic dismantlement of the health system was going to be a central tenet of the Israeli military doctrine”. 

Newslaundry · Jan 8, 2025