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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.

Media

Philip Kotler endorses the award to PM Modi, which Rahul Gandhi had tried to run down

OpIndia Staff - 15 January, 2019

Earlier Rahul Gandhi, with help from fake news peddling website The Wire, had tried to insinuate that the award was insignificant.

Fact-Check

Leftist propaganda websites spread baseless claims about the transfer of ousted CBI Director Alok Verma

Raju Das - 11 January, 2019

Alok Verma had already submitted his response to CVC report on him, hence the select committee need not hear him

Editor's picks

As 2018 comes to an end, here is a reminder of the top 10 lies spread by the media

Editorial Desk - 31 December, 2018

NDTV, The Wire, BBC, Barkha Dutt - the usual suspects in the list of top 10 media lies spread this year

Media

Vinod Dua refuses to face lady who accused him of molestation, probe committee dissolves itself in frustration

OpIndia Staff - 31 December, 2018

External committee set up to probe sexual harassment charges against Vinod Dua dissolved itself after he refused to cooperate

Editor's picks

Chanting ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ is communal: Latest pearls of wisdom from The Wire family

Jinit Jain - 29 December, 2018

Liberals have displayed pathological hatred towards chants such as ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ that draw nationalist pride among Indians

Media

Reuters quoted ‘source’ to say Modi govt will waive farmer loans on a day Union Minister said there was no such plan

OpIndia Staff - 13 December, 2018

While it is not clear why Reuters did such reporting, people were speculating this could be a fake news spread by the Congress-friendly media on behest of Congress to pressurise Modi government.

Editor's picks

As Vinod Dua finds another job, The Wire says he continues to be their consulting editor despite sexual harassment accusations

OpIndia Staff - 7 December, 2018

Another woman had accused Vinod Dua of sexual harassment as well, however, after these multiple allegations, The Wire's internal committee report, if there was one, was never made public.

Economy and Finance

The Wire comes up with flawed logic to rubbish new methodology which slashed growth rates of Congress regime

Chitra sharma - 1 December, 2018

The reasons given by the article by The Wire more amusing as it clearly showed their lack of understanding of data, statistic and above all, of economics.

Media

Corridor of Love: Indian journalists are elated with the experience they had in Pakistan

Editorial Desk - 29 November, 2018

Some journalists even thought of themselves as messengers of peace as they crossed the border

Editor's picks

Here is the list of journalists ‘approved’ by Pakistan High Commission to cover Kartarpur event

OpIndia Staff - 29 November, 2018

We are told that the list of journalists who are to cover the Kartarpur Corridor inauguration has been carefully vetted by the Pakistan High Commission.

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