The Wire-Meta Fiasco

What is truth?

Tough to answer that. Where does journalistic creativity end and falsehoods begin?

India was shook when an online news portal reported that Amit Malviya (BJP IT cell head) was granted amazing powers by Meta to take down any social media post without any questions asked. 

"The company has given Malviya two levels of privileges – he can post as he likes, without the rules governing the platform applying to him, and he can impose his will as he pleases to have posts critical of the BJP, the Union government, or right-wing Hindu politics, deleted.”, The Wire’s story had alleged.

Meta executives called out the bluff in response. 

After questions were raised followed by public outcry,  the online leftist news portal purportedly even produced inside letters proving or alluding that there was some truth in their earlier reports.  

Of course, all this was proven false and the news articles were taken down. 

It was reported that: "In its apology on October 27, the Wire acknowledged that the “internal editorial processes which preceded publication of these stories did not meet the standards that the Wire sets for itself and its readers expect from it.” However, it did not issue an apology to Malviya or Meta. Two days later, Malviya filed a case against the Wire for cheating, forgery, criminal defamation and criminal conspiracy. "

And then,  there were news that police has raided the offices of Wire.

Bad day for journalism in India.

 “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”