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An official from India’s ruling party says he will sue an independent local news website after it reported in a now-retracted story that Meta, the social media giant, granted him extraordinary powers to censor Instagram posts

Hours after the Wire issued an apology to its readers over its controversial Meta stories, the Economist carried a piece on the website’s “own-goal” holding lessons for “opposition voices everywhere” while the Editors Guild of India withdrew its statement referring to the organisation’s Tek Fog reports.

After insisting for over a week that its reporting supposedly exposing how Meta allowed BJP leaders to censor content on its platforms was solid, the Wire on Tuesday pulled down the work pending a “thorough internal review of all material and documents and sources”.

A win for Meta after independent Indian news outlet The Wire pulls reports on the tech giant’s XCheck program over authenticity doubts.

After receiving widespread criticism for its coverage of Meta’s XCheck programme, the Wire has decided to “suspend the stories” until it carries out a “thorough internal review of all material and documents and sources”, the portal’s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan told Newslaundry.

Meta has rejected claims its controversial program XCheck helped censor Modi government critics — but reports from India suggest otherwise.

This week, the Wire published a damning report about the content moderation policies of Meta, the social media behemoth that owns Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. Meta, which has misled about how it functions and moderates content before, replied saying the news report was misleading at best and fabricated at worst.…

Social media giant Meta has claimed that a report in the Wire – which suggested BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya was part of the firm’s controversial XCheck programme – was “inaccurate” and appeared to be based on “fabricated” documentation. However, the news portal reported that Meta’s claims were in…

The Income Tax (I-T) Department conducted “surveys” at the premises of two think tanks and a charity