Media Fact-Check

Smriti Irani criticised Rahul Gandhi’s earlier temple politics, suggesting his recent focus on caste issues is a tactical move to gain media coverage after his previous efforts failed.

She lauded a post by Sultan Mohammed Zakaria, which contained misleading videos of Indian dams to claim that India released water from the Dumbur Dam causing floods in Bangladesh. Interestingly, this very post, which Farhana Sultana called a “spot-on analysis” was debunked by DW News.

Several media outlets reported on the Modi-Biden conversation, with most presenting the news as it was, clearly indicating that Joe Biden was the one who called PM Narendra Modi. However, the Indian Express insinuated that it was Modi who initiated the call to the US President.

Left-wing portals including The Wire, Quint, Maktoob Media, and The Kashmiriyat gave a communal angle to the whole incident and tried to spread animosity between the two communities. 

Media houses spread false news that TRAI has suggested imposing a penalty for having two SIMs in a phone with an unused SIM

9,13,79,409 electors cast their votes in the first phase of 2019 polls, while 11,00,52,103 votes were cast in the first phase of 2024 polls, Wire claims this is a dip of 1.86 crore votes

Marathi news channels aired video of rap song by Instagram user cringistaan2 claiming to be the teenaged accused in the Pune Porsche accident case

PM Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack saying that if Congress came to power, they would redistribute wealth to Muslims

Contrary to the CNBC report’s claim, it was not Justice Khanna but advocate Prashant Bhushan who spoke in favour of returning to paper ballots.

SBI released data on Electoral Bonds bought by various entities from the State Bank of India in compliance with SC order.