Satyameter Evidence-linked accuracy tracking for Indian TV news

Accuracy leaderboard

Per-anchor claim accuracy across primetime broadcasts. Every score is measured, not asserted — the needle sits at the share of checked claims judged accurate. Anchors with fewer than 10 checked claims are held below the line as insufficient sample.

380
Episodes analysed
3650
Claims extracted
1037
Claims fact-checked
03 Jun – 03 Jul 2026
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What we found

Three readings from the corpus · see the evidence →
What the coverage is about
47%
of all claims sit in conflict & division topics; all development topics combined get 8%.
Break it down →
Who gets blamed
2.4×
Individuals are blamed 2.4× more often than systems & institutions (911 vs 379).
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The coverage gap
agriculture rural
The least-covered public-interest topic: 8 claims, 0.2% of the corpus.
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The ledger

Ranked by the 95% confidence bound, not raw accuracy · why? · click a row for the dossier
# Anchor Accuracy meter
How accuracy is measuredAccuracy = accurate ÷ (accurate + inaccurate + misleading), over verdicts with confidence ≥ 0.7. Unverifiable claims are excluded. The shaded band is the 95% confidence interval; we rank by its lower bound so small samples earn their rank.
 N
What N meansN checked of M checkable — how many of an anchor's checkable claims have actually been fact-checked (scrutiny). A high accuracy over a low N is a provisional reading.
 Verdict mix
1 Sudhir Chaudhary DD News · Decode 0 100 94.6% 92/447 CI 88–98% 2 Anjana Om Kashyap Aaj Tak · Black and White 0 100 93.3% 89/700 CI 86–97% 3 Navika Kumar Times Now · The Newshour 0 100 88.5% 52/72 CI 77–95% 4 Rubika Liyaquat Times Now Navbharat · News Ki Pathshala 0 100 83.5% 91/451 CI 75–90% 5 Gaurav Sawant India Today · India First 0 100 87.5% 32/36 CI 72–95% 6 Rajat Sharma India TV · Aaj Ki Baat 0 100 81.3% 64/291 CI 70–89% 7 Chitra Tripathi ABP News · Janhit 0 100 79.5% 78/433 CI 69–87% 8 Arnab Goswami Republic TV · The Debate with Arnab Goswami 0 100 79.7% 64/154 CI 68–88% 9 Aman Chopra News18 India · Desh Nahi Jhukne Denge 0 100 78.1% 73/118 CI 67–86% 10 Amish Devgan News18 India · Aar Paar 0 100 75.8% 62/186 CI 64–85%