The Biggest Stories Indian Media Misreported In 2023
By Hazel Gandhi The year 2023 was a busy one for the fake news industry - it led us fact-checkers at BOOM to write over a 1,000 fact-checks across three different languages. A closer look at our work revealed that 77 unique fact-checks were on false reporting, or misreporting, by news channels, news websites and wire agencies between January 1 to December 31, 2023. Since 2020, BOOM has published an annual report all the fact-checks we did on false or misleading claims being spread by these media outlets, and the number has been steadily rising over the years. In 2020, as the world was gripped ...