The Wire puts all the blame against its researcher Devesh Kumar, files complaint against over Meta article
The controversy erupted after The Wire had claimed in its articles that BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya used his special privileges at tech giant Meta to take down over anti-BJP social media posts.
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The so-called liberal news portal, "The Wire" has put all the blame on its researcher Devesh Kumar as it has filed a complaint with the Economic Offences Wing of the Delhi Police in connection with the controversial Meta articles published this month. This comes a day after the police lodged an FIR against the portal, its founder and editors.
The controversy erupted after The Wire had claimed in its articles that BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya used his special privileges at tech giant Meta to take down over anti-BJP social media posts. Besides, the complaint filed by The Wire against Devesh Kumar in the fabrication of documents and forgery.
Apart from the left-wing portal The Wire, Amit Malviya has named its founder editors, Siddharth Varadarajan, Sidharth Bhatia and MK Venu, and Deputy Editor Jahnavi Sen, as accused in the complaint. Apart from this, a complaint has also been filed against unknown persons. Jahnavi Sen had written the report on October 10 claiming that Amit Malviya has been given Xcheck privilege to remove content from Instagram.
Earlier, The Wire, founded by Siddarth Varadarajan, had alleged that Amit Malviya has been given access by Facebook’s parent company Meta to delete anti-BJP posts from Facebook and Instagram. After The Wire’s claims were refuted, they tried to fabricate evidence in the shape of forged emails, but when even those claims were revealed to be frauds, The Wire withdrew their reports.
Here is what actually happened.
1. The leftist News website The Wire, in a series of reports, had alleged that BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya had certain privileges to take down posts from Meta-owned Instagram.
2. These baseless reports soon sparked a controversy, questions were raised over its authenticity and against BJP leader. The news website initially stood by its report, with The Wire editor Siddharth Varadarajan stating that the "stories came from multiple Meta sources—whom we know, have met and verified."
3. However, Meta denied the such allegations made by The Wire. Meta's director for policy communications, Andy Stone, in a tweet said, "The posts in question were surfaced for review by automated systems, not humans. And the underlying documentation appears to be fabricated."
4. The Wire was later forced to retract the stories. The news portal apologised to only its "readers" for slippage in its editorial assessment. "This combination of not fully grasping the complexities of technology and a slippage in editorial assessment of tech-related matter resulted in the publication of stories which did not eventually hold up. For this we owe an apology to our readers," the news portal said. It did not apologise to BJP leader Amit Malviya.
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