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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.

Law

Solicitor General cites OpIndia report in SC to debunk misleading report by IndiaSpend and The Wire on Kashmir

OpIndia Staff - 21 November, 2019

The Supreme Court (SC) is hearing cases related to the so-called communication shut-down in Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370

Opinions

A Hindu perennially ashamed and guilty: How narrative after Ayodhya verdict is trying to achieve it

Nupur J Sharma - 17 November, 2019

Even before the Ayodhya verdict was pronounced, there was a host of requests being made for calm to be maintained. While this sounds advice of maturity, the undercurrent was palpable and deeply disturbing.

Media

The Wire posts irresponsible content on social media on the day of the Ram Janmabhoomi, Ayodhya verdict

OpIndia Staff - 9 November, 2019

While most media portals have been responsible in their coverage of the Ram Janmabhoomi verdict, The Wire stands out like a sore thumb.

Opinions

Images show Congress-ruled Punjab mainly responsible for stubble burning, media continues to question Haryana and Modi

Abhishek Banerjee - 4 November, 2019

The media keeps saying that Punjab, Delhi and Haryana should resolve the stubble burning issue mutually. This sounds nice and ‘neutral’ because that would mean one Chief Minister each from Congress, AAP and BJP.

Media

The Wire interviews Umar Khalid to whitewash Kamlesh Tiwari murder, Umar says ‘Muslims must mobilise’

Editorial Desk - 31 October, 2019

The Wire has interviewed Umar Khalid, accused in a sedition case and son of terrorist organisation SIMI member, to whitewash the Kamlesh Tiwari murder altogether.

Fact-Check

The Wire demonises Kamlesh Tiwari even in death, lies about him being ‘convicted’ in the blasphemy case against him

OpIndia Staff - 19 October, 2019

The Wire's assertion that Kamlesh Tiwari had been convicted is patently false.

Politics

As Jay Shah becomes the Secretary of BCCI, usual suspects target him with old, debunked lies published by Leftist rag The Wire

OpIndia Staff - 14 October, 2019

After Jay Shah was made BCCI Secretary, Congress trolls used The Wire's shoddy article to target him.

News Reports

The Wire journalist Arfa Khanum Sherwani gets attacked on Twitter by Islamists for uploading Durga Puja picture

OpIndia Staff - 9 October, 2019

Dussehra greetings of Arfa Khanum did not sit well with Muslim fundamentalists who abused her

Media

The dangers of random ‘bigot-baby-secular-baby’ Goebbels propaganda being peddled by the ‘Liberals’

Nupur J Sharma - 8 October, 2019

Fake news peddler and propagandist who masquerades as a journalist, Rohini Singh, tweeted an entire thread where apparently, at a 5-year-old's birthday party, some 'little Zoya' was asked to 'go back to her country' to which she said she 'is not Pakistani'.

Media Fact-Check