As The Wire is in the crosshairs over its shoddy hit-job against Meta, it is worth revisiting lies peddled by Siddharth Varadarajan about the 2002 Gujarat train burning incident.
Soon the Khargone administration erected barricades in a few lanes to maintain peace in the riot-hit areas, leftist media started spinning a narrative to disparage the BJP government in the state
Renowned leftist media outlets like Aaj Tak, News 18, Hindustan Times and The Indian Express proceeded to give the Sangli mass suicide incident, where accused is said to be a Muslim occultist, a Hindu spin as well
AltNews, which regularly spreads fake news in the garb of "fact-checking" and shields Islamists professionally, published a "fact-check" claiming that the threat letter was a fake one
While being fully aware that the predominantly Western audience knew nothing about the internal affairs of India, Rana Ayyub used the platform to peddle misinformation and false narratives.