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After receiving widespread criticism for its coverage of Meta’s XCheck programme, the Wire has decided to “suspend the stories” until it carries out a “thorough internal review of all material and documents and sources”, the portal’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan told Newslaundry.

Defence minister Rajnath Singh believes the media should be independent, but warns that “efforts are made to misuse it in the name of freedom of expression to establish and propagate dangerous and divisive ideas”.

In 2019, there were zero journalists from SC or ST backgrounds in leadership positions in India’s mainstream media newsrooms, spanning print, broadcast and digital.

Amid a CBI probe into alleged irregularities in Delhi’s liquor policy, Aam Aadmi Party leaders’ alleged links to the case, the crores of rupees involved, and multiple raids across the country have thrown up several media reports. But one particular media outfit has gone from reporting on the alleged scam…

This week, the Wire published a damning report about the content moderation policies of Meta, the social media behemoth that owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. Meta, which has misled about how it functions and moderates content before, replied saying the news report was misleading at best and fabricated at worst.…

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from the Supreme Court, Maharashtra, New Delhi, Chhattisgarh, and Ukraine.

On October 9, BJP parliamentarian Parvesh Verma called for a “total boycott” of Muslims because, he declared, they were trying to turn Delhi into a “mini Pakistan”.

Veronica Joseph brings you the news from the Supreme Court, Kerala, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Goa, and Myanmar.

After the Shiv Sena was formed in 1966, it took 23 years for the party to be allotted its now iconic bow and arrow symbol. Now, 33 years later, that symbol is lost to the party, its use barred until the two rival factions of the party sort themselves out.