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Revision as of 10:22, 11 November 2019 by 125.16.230.16 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) Right wing Indian news portalOpIndia is an Indian news portal which claims to be a fact-checking website.
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 that also owns the right-leaning magazine Swarajya.
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.
References
- Bhushan/TheWire, Sandeep (2017-01-26). "Arnab's Republic hints at mainstreaming right-wing opinion as a business". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
- Manish, Sai (2018-04-07). "Right vs Wrong: Arundhati Roy, Mohandas Pai funding fake news busters". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
- Ananth, Venkat (2019-05-07). "Can fact-checking emerge as big and viable business?". The Economic Times. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
- 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.