Media Fact-Check

When the Media lies, it takes away the people’s right to know. The only way to reclaim that right is to catch them in the act.

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Fact check: Has Bhupen Hazarika’s family ‘rejected’ the Bharat Ratna?

OpIndia Staff - 12 February, 2019

All Assam based family members of Bhupen Hazarika has welcomed the decision to confer Bharat Ratna upon Dr Bhupen Hazarika.

Fact-Check

N Ram competes with Rahul Gandhi in spreading lies about the Rafale deal

OpIndia Staff - 11 February, 2019

N Ram publishes more lies about the Rafale deal in The Hindu

Media

The Hindu deliberately distorts MoD document to spread Fake News on the Rafale Deal

OpIndia Staff - 8 February, 2019

The Congress President had used the slanted The Hindu report which presented a distorted version of events to claim that Narendra Modi had stolen Rs. 30,000 crores.

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Congress spreads fake news by saying India is global number 1 in fake news

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2019

Congress claims India tops global list of fake news, which itself is a fake news

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Winner of Nobel Prize in Economics rubbishes ThePrint report about him helping Rahul Gandhi on election promises

OpIndia Staff - 7 February, 2019

Yesterday, media reports had also surfaced that Congress leaders had allegedly 'planted' the Army coup fake story back in 2012

Economy and Finance

Indiaspend’s faulty ‘FactChecker’ spreads fake news about Budget 2019 while ‘fact-checking’ Piyush Goyal’s speech

OpIndia Staff - 1 February, 2019

FactChecker.in decided to 'fact-check' the Budget 2019 speech, and in the process, ended up spreading fake news themselves

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IndiaSpend’s faulty ‘fact-checker’ does it again, does not correct database even after their own ground report says otherwise

OpIndia Staff - 31 January, 2019

Earlier, too, factchecker.in has fudged up data to show that more Muslims are victims of 'hate-crime' than Hindus

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Fact-check: Was PM Modi wrong in claiming that culprits are being brought to justice within days?

OpIndia Staff - 31 January, 2019

The ones criticising this statement by PM Modi wanted to insinuate that the PM is incorrect in saying that justice in such heinous rape cases has not started being delivered swiftly

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Government trashes report by The Print, says no such “IB report” exists that talks about Universities being anti-Modi

OpIndia Staff - 29 January, 2019

The government has denied that it has received any IB report against universities selected for IoE status, as alleged by The Print report

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Fact-check: The Print and The Telegraph spread dangerous lies about Polio vaccine in India

OpIndia Staff - 28 January, 2019

It is indeed worrisome how big media like The Print, which is run by the Editors Guild chief Shekhar Gupta, no less and The Telegraph spread rumours and lies about the Polio vaccine

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