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

163 claims · filtered from 270
Claims from this anchor, newest first.
ClaimTopicVerdictConf.
The opposition's narrative that EVMs and the electoral process are flawed has failed and collapsed. EVM doubts opposition attack not checked —
The opposition's narrative that a major economic crisis is coming to India has failed. economic crisis narrative opposition attack not checked —
The opposition's narrative that the Modi government will abolish reservation has failed. reservation abolition narrative opposition attack not checked —
The BJP says that Akhilesh Yadav himself fears his party is being broken apart ahead of the UP elections. Akhilesh defection fear opposition attack not checked —
The Samajwadi Party seems to sense that some of its own leaders are about to defect and is preparing for it. SP defection fears opposition attack not checked —
Even granting that the BJP is buying legislators, the question remains why the MLAs are selling themselves. MLA defections opposition attack not checked —
AAP has therefore lost the moral standing to advocate on behalf of Ram. AAP moral standing communal religion not checked —
If MPs and MLAs are being bought, why are they selling themselves — the buyer is questionable, but so are those who sell out. MLA horse-trading governance economy not checked —
Sarcastic assertion that one can post on Twitter even from Europe — implying Rahul Gandhi has not issued even a tweet on the temple incident despite being able to. Rahul Gandhi silence opposition attack not checked —
You (the critics/opposition) could never do this with any other religion; the answer is no. selective religious criticism communal religion not checked —
The anchor claims that if he revealed everything about that sting operation episode — whose names were involved and who was protected — it would shake the ground beneath (the opposition's) feet. sting operation cover-up opposition attack not checked —
Rhetorical challenge: which 'godi media' (lapdog media) was that journalist part of, and what Constitution was being saved then — implying the opposition's media-bias and Constitution-saving claims are hypocritical. godi media hypocrisy opposition attack not checked —
Whichever party gets the opportunity has always exploited it (poached legislators); this has been the arithmetic of politics, so accusing only one side of buying and selling MLAs is hollow. defection politics governance economy not checked —