Satyameter Evidence-linked accuracy tracking for Indian TV news

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Amish Devgan

News18 India Aar Paar Hindi
75.8% claim accuracy
How accuracy is measuredAccuracy = accurate ÷ (accurate + inaccurate + misleading), over verdicts with confidence ≥ 0.7. Unverifiable claims are excluded from the denominator.
0 100 75.8%

95% confidence interval 64–85%

Why we rank by the confidence boundWe rank by the lower bound of this interval, not raw accuracy. A small sample yields a wide interval and a low bound — so anchors earn their rank by being checked more, not by looking good on a handful of claims.
. 62 checked of 186 checkable · 270 extracted.

Scrutiny
What scrutiny meansN checked of M checkable — the share of this anchor's checkable claims that have actually been fact-checked. High accuracy over low scrutiny is a provisional reading, not a verdict on the anchor.
 62/186

Verdict mix

107 of 270 extracted claims checked

107 of 270 extracted claims checked.

Coverage profile

Share of extracted claims by topic — click to drill in
opposition attack 36% communal religion 30% governance economy 21% pakistan security 4% crime 3% other 3% science tech 1% education 0% infrastructure transport 0% international 0%

Who is held responsible
How framing is measuredThe framing target of each claim — the party the anchor assigns responsibility to. Blaming the people involved frames differently from blaming the system that enabled the issue. Counted, not judged. Click a bar to read those claims.

Framing of blame across all extracted claims · click a bar to read them
This anchor most often points at Individuals 10 claims →
Individuals 10 System & institutions 9 Government 20 Opposition 184 Foreign actor 20 Media 4

Flagged claims

Judged inaccurate or misleading in the checked sample

Episodes analysed

45 broadcasts

All claims & verdicts

18 claims · filtered from 270
Claims from this anchor, newest first.
ClaimTopicVerdictConf.
Aar Paar is the most popular programme in the country. show self-promotion other misleading 72.0%
The deleted Tripura Congress post said 'the BJP is making Hindus [expletive]', using an abusive word (beginning with 'C') for Hindus. abusive post content communal religion misleading 55.0%
Allegedly, Hindus were described (by an opposition figure) as more dangerous than Al-Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba. Al-Qaeda comparison communal religion misleading 72.0%
Rahul Gandhi said 'there is a word Shakti in Hinduism, we are fighting against that Shakti', which the anchor equates with an attack on Hindu Shakti Peethas such as Vaishno Devi, Chintpurni, Jwala Mai, Naina Devi and Kamakhya Devi. Shakti remark communal religion misleading 90.0%
Rahul Gandhi stated that people who call themselves Hindus talk about violence and hatred 24 hours a day. Rahul Gandhi Hindu remark communal religion misleading 90.0%
Arvind Kejriwal, citing his grandmother, had said his Ram would never go to a temple built by demolishing a mosque, and the Aam Aadmi Party officially opposed the Ram temple. AAP Ram temple stance communal religion misleading 80.0%
From the TMC to the Uddhav faction, every leader who turned rebel has directly targeted his own party's top leadership (implying they left of their own accord, not because BJP broke them). opposition defections opposition attack misleading 72.0%
Akhilesh Yadav has raised the idea of changing the constitution. constitution change remark opposition attack misleading 85.0%
Arvind Kejriwal has flip-flopped on Lord Ram — earlier saying no, now saying yes — changing colours like a chameleon. Kejriwal Ram stance opposition attack misleading 60.0%
Thirty BSP MLAs were broken away to save Mulayam Singh Yadav's government — implying the Samajwadi Party also engaged in buying legislators — and the anchor demands to know how much money changed hands then. BSP MLA split opposition attack misleading 75.0%
In its entire existence, Anurag Dhanda's party (AAP) did nothing for the construction of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya — no kar seva, no donations. AAP Ram Mandir role communal religion misleading 65.0%
The Aam Aadmi Party did nothing in its entire existence for the building of the Ram temple in Ayodhya — no kar seva, no donations; the Ram Rath campaign was that of the RSS and BJP. AAP Ram temple contribution opposition attack misleading 60.0%
Arvind Kejriwal used to say that his grandmothers said a Ram temple should never be built at the Babri site. Kejriwal Ram temple stance opposition attack misleading 60.0%
Tejashwi Yadav has also gone to Europe. Tejashwi Europe trip opposition attack misleading 60.0%
Hindus were called violent and Taliban-like, and the term 'Hindu terrorism' was coined (by the opposition), and at that time nobody invoked the Constitution. Hindu terrorism label communal religion misleading 65.0%
A so-called journalist stopped/suppressed the sting operation (on the cash-for-votes scandal) at that time, allegedly to protect someone. suppressed sting operation opposition attack misleading 70.0%
L.K. Advani('s side) brought bags/suitcases full of currency notes into Parliament (referring to the 2008 cash-for-votes episode). cash-for-votes scandal opposition attack misleading 85.0%
In the recent Rajya Sabha elections in Karnataka, cross-voting occurred: BJP MLAs voted for the Congress candidate, and the BJP summoned its own state president, B.Y. Vijayendra, over it. Rajya Sabha cross-voting governance economy misleading 80.0%