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Right wing Indian news portal
OpIndia
OpIndia logo
Type of siteNews
Available in2 languages
List of languagesEnglish, Hindi
FoundedDecember 2014
Country of originIndia
OwnerAadhyaasi Media And Content Services
Founder(s)Rahul Raj, Kumar Kamal
EditorNupur J Sharma
URLwww.opindia.com
Right wing Indian news portal

OpIndia is Indian news portal which claims to be a fact-checking website. Portal was founded by Rahul Raj and Kumar Kamal in December of 2014. It is ideologically oriented towards right-wing populism and has propagated fake news over multiple occasions.

Background

OpIndia was founded in December 2014 by Rahul Raj and Kumar Kamal as a current affairs and news website to counter 'leftist narrative'. In October 2016, it was acquired by Kovai Media Private Limited, a Coimbatore-based company that also owns the right-leaning magazine Swarajya till July 2018. Later, it was disassociated with the group and became separate entity. Nupur J Sharma, a self confessed right leaning figure, is editor of the portal.

Reception

The portal has propagated Fake news on the multiple occasion.

In May 2019, the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), an affiliate of the acclaimed Poynter Institute rejected OpIndia's application to be accredited as a fact-checker; among a variety of reasons, it noted political partisanism, poor fact-checking methodologies and general polemic commentary, accompanying their news-pieces as significant contributors towards the rejection. IFCN’s assessment stated that portal “concentrated on certain political organisation(s) with a certain ideology.”

In the response to The Economic Times, Nupur J Sharma, an editor of portal said that claim of potential bias was laughable and business of being biased or neutral was sham. She also added that fact checking networks should allow 'biased' source so that sum can be neutral and claimed that Daily Caller who declared ideological leaning is accepted as fact-checker in USA.

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Anout Us-OpIndia".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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  5. ^ Manish, Sai (2018-04-07). "Right vs Wrong: Arundhati Roy, Mohandas Pai funding fake news busters". Business Standard India. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  6. ^ Roushan, Rahul (2018-11-23). "Announcement: OpIndia is now a separate legal and business entity - Opindia News". OpIndia. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
  7. "Busting fake news: Who funds whom?". Rediff. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
  8. Kaur, Kanchan (11 February 2019). "Conclusions and recommendations on the application by OpIndia.com". International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). Archived from the original on 10 March 2019.
  9. ^ Ananth, Venkat (2019-05-07). "Can fact-checking emerge as big and viable business?". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
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