Siddharth Varadarajan

The Wire's 'apology' is more of an exercise of getting patted on back for 'owning up' on lapses instead of apologising to those it falsely accused and targeted over fabricated evidence.

The Wire suspended the Tek Fog Stories after withdrawing the Meta stories, authored by same reporting teams

Despite being proven completely fake, Pamela Philipose said that The Wire 'investigation' on Meta was significant

Ujjwal Kumar wrote a long post on LinkedIn distancing himself from the fabricated claim made by The Wire on their Meta story

It seems WhatsApp messages where it is claimed that a privacy researcher has endorsed The Wire story on Meta has been making rounds. The Wire story has been proved beyond doubts now that it was based on fabricated 'evidences' that played right into confirmation bias.

This is why Siddharth Varadarajan was removed as editor of The Hindu.

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.

Most of those who are calling The Wire out today will likely side with them tomorrow on ideological narrative building, forgetting The Wire's history of shoddy reporting. That is 'liberal' privilege.

If an OTT series is not made on this absurdity to show how The Wire got taken for a ride, our team here would be really disappointed.

Siddharth Varadarajan rushed to Twitter again to reveal that The Wire's protonmail account had been hacked.