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The Wire

TheWire is a primarily English language opinion website started by Siddharth Varadarajan, MK Venu and one more random guy. The primary raison d’être of TheWire seems to be to continue getting money from the Anti-modi lobby and old establishment guard after Varadarajan and co were cut off from the gravy train post Modi win. As an example Sid Varadarajan made a lot of money appearing on Rajya Sabha – the kind of money even private channels cannot afford to give to guests. No price for guessing that Rajya Sabha was under Hamid Ansari at that time who has been accused by rAW officers of being a mole and a traitor.

Since the beginning, most of TheWire’s writeups have been focused on Modi and to fuel communal sentiments by fueling paranoia in minority communities based on many false news and manufactured propaganda.

On this page, you can find our collection of some of these propaganda pieces and our rebuttal and fact checks of them.

Delhi Police register FIR against The Wire on complaint of Amit Malviya against it, its Founding Editors and Deputy Editor for fake Meta story

OpIndia Staff - 29 October, 2022

Amit Malviya files complaint against The Wire, Siddharth Varadarajan. Sidharth Bhatia, MK Venu, Jahnavi Sen for the fake Meta story

Opinions

The Wire’s fabricated story about Meta and Amit Malviya: Does Left ecosystem need protection or do people need protection from this ecosystem

Ganesh R - 29 October, 2022

In selecting Amit Malviya as a punching bag, The Wire and its editors may have thought they found a juicier soft target than, say, Jay Shah

News Reports

Amit Malviya to lodge FIR against The Wire and its management for fake Meta story, says it was a criminal conspiracy to tarnish his...

OpIndia Staff - 28 October, 2022

Amit Malviya said that while Wire has apologised to its readers for the fake Meta story, they have not apologised to him

News Reports

The Wire, after having committed fraud that was used to defame India, issues a laughable statement that calls out their bluff

Dibakar Dutta - 28 October, 2022

After being slapped with defamation suit for its Tek Fog and Meta frauds, The Wire issued an apology note, painting themselves as victim of 'deception by their writer'.

News Reports

After demanding Supreme Court probe over fictitious app Tek Fog, Editors Guild withdraws reference to it after The Wire retracted its stories

OpIndia Staff - 28 October, 2022

Editors Guild withdraws reference to Tek Fog in its January statement on online harassment of woman journalists

Politics

Amit Malviya to pursue criminal and civil proceedings against “The Wire” over their fraudulent reporting targeting the BJP leader

OpIndia Staff - 27 October, 2022

The Wire, founded by American citizen Siddarth Varadarajan, had alleged that Amit Malviya has been given access by Facebook's parent company Meta to delete anti-BJP posts from Facebook and Instagram.

Media

Analysing The Wire’s ‘apology’ to readers, its victimhood and indulgence in self-glory and how it does not own up they fabricated ‘evidence’

Nirwa Mehta - 27 October, 2022

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.

News Reports