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IFCN certified fact-checkers ] and Boom (among others) document the site to have propagated ] on multiple occasions.<ref name="Fake news" /> IFCN certified fact-checkers ] and Boom (among others) document the site to have propagated ] on multiple occasions.<ref name="Fake news" />

A January 2020 report by the media watchdog Newslaundry noted the portal to contain several inflammatory headlines targeting the ], ] and ].<ref name=":0">{{cite news|url=https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/01/03/fake-news-lies-muslim-bashing-and-ravish-kumar-inside-opindias-harrowing-world|title=Fake news, lies, Muslim bashing, and Ravish Kumar: Inside OpIndia’s harrowing world|last=Kumar|first=Basant|date=3 January 2020|work=Newslaundry|accessdate=3 January 2020|language=en-UK}}</ref> Mainstream media and the political opposition (esp. ]) were oft-criticized; posts published by ''OpIndia'' ''Hindi'' from November 15 to 29 were located to be invariably situated against any criticism of the ] ].<ref name=":0" /> On February 12, OpIndia had organised an ideological seminar featuring prominent figures from right wing intelligentsia<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|last=Tiwari|first=Ayush|url=https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/02/16/i-survived-bharat-bodh-and-lived-to-tell-the-tale|title=I braved ‘Bharat Bodh’ and lived to tell the tale : Muslim-baiters, rape-deniers, livelihood-destroyers, apologists of religious violence — the Opindia and My Nation event had’em all.|date=16 February 2020|work=Newslaundry|access-date=17 February 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>; Newslaundry noted the seminar to have spread communally charged conspiracy theories about the ], equate the ] to formation of mini-Pakistan and engage in other Islamophobic discourse.<ref name=":1" />


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Right wing Indian news portal
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OpIndia
OpIndia logo
Type of siteNews
Available inEnglish, Hindi
OwnerAadhyaasi Media And Content Services
URLwww.opindia.com
Right wing Indian news portal

OpIndia is an Indian right-wing news portal which claims to be a fact-checking website. In May 2019, the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) rejected OpIndia's application to be accredited as a fact-checker on grounds of political partisanism and poor fact-checking methodologies; AltNews et al. document the site to have propagated fake news on multiple occasions.

History

OpIndia was founded in 2014 by Rahul Raj and Kumar Kamal as a current affairs and news website. In October 2016, it was acquired by Kovai Media Private Limited, a Coimbatore-based company of T. V. Mohandas Pai, that also owns the right-leaning magazine Swarajya.

Later, it was disassociated from the group and became a separate entity; Nupur J Sharma is the current editor.

Content

OpIndia has accused multiple prominent media outlets — The Wall Street Journal, India Today, Scroll.in, The Wire and others of spreading fake news and leftist propaganda. The portal claims to have a policy of no-partisanship for fact-checking; Sharma has though clarified that they do not claim to be ideologically neutral otherwise and are openly right leaning.

Reception

In May 2019, the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), an affiliate of the Poynter Institute, rejected OpIndia's application to be accredited as a fact-checker. While noting partial compliance on a number of categories, the IFCN expressed concerns over partisanship, a lack of clear corrections policy, and questioned OpIndia's use of speeches to counter claims The rejection disqualified OpIndia for fact-checking contracts with web properties owned by Facebook and Google.

IFCN certified fact-checkers AltNews and Boom (among others) document the site to have propagated fake news on multiple occasions.

Response

Sharma had rejected the IFCN assessment in entirety and urged for an acceptance of outlets with open political leanings, as in United States. It also asserts AltNews, Boom etc. of propagating fake news and disinformation over numerous occasions.

References

  1. Sources supporting OpIndia to follow a right wing ideology:
  2. Bhushan/TheWire, Sandeep (2017-01-26). "Arnab's Republic hints at mainstreaming right-wing opinion as a business". Business Standard India. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  3. ^ Sources supporting OpIndia to have disseminated fake news:
  4. ^ Manish, Sai (2018-04-07). "Right vs Wrong: Arundhati Roy, Mohandas Pai funding fake news busters". Business Standard India. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  5. Roushan, Rahul (2018-11-23). "Announcement: OpIndia is now a separate legal and business entity - Opindia News". OpIndia. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
  6. Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. "Busting fake news: Who funds whom?". Rediff. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
  8. Ananth, Venkat (2019-05-07). "Can fact-checking emerge as big and viable business?". The Economic Times. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  9. Kaur, Kanchan (11 February 2019). "Conclusions and recommendations on the application by OpIndia.com". International Fact-Checking Network. Archived from the original on 10 March 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  10. ^ Ananth, Venkat (7 May 2019). "Can fact-checking emerge as big and viable business?". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
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