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

270 claims
Claims from this anchor, newest first.
ClaimTopicVerdictConf.
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%
There is no such figure of ₹1400 crore (rebutting the guest's claim that ₹1400 crore was looted from the Ram Lalla temple donations). temple donation loot allegation communal religion accurate 70.0%
Amit Shah went to the Ram temple for darshan in 2021. Amit Shah temple visit communal religion accurate 90.0%
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 —
Tejashwi Yadav has also gone to Europe. Tejashwi Europe trip opposition attack misleading 60.0%
Rahul Gandhi is currently not in India. Rahul Gandhi absence opposition attack unverifiable 50.0%
The BJP is amplifying this issue, and BJP figures from Amit Malviya onward have all been tweeting about it continuously. BJP issue amplification communal religion unverifiable 45.0%
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%
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 —
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%
Amar Singh went to jail over the cash-for-votes affair, and in an interview with the anchor he said he did everything to save the Congress government and was repaid by being put in jail. cash-for-votes scandal opposition attack accurate 85.0%
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%
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 —
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%
During Ashok Gehlot's government (in Rajasthan), six BSP MLAs were broken away and merged into the Congress; Mayawati said her entire party unit was absorbed. Rajasthan BSP merger opposition attack accurate 92.0%
The PV Narasimha Rao–JMM bribery scandal took place, and PV Narasimha Rao had to appear in court over it; it was a very big matter. JMM bribery scandal opposition attack accurate 95.0%
The anchor sarcastically counters the SP spokesperson by asserting that 30 MLAs were indeed broken away from the BSP (implying the opposition also engineered defections while claiming it was done 'to save the Constitution'). BSP MLA defections opposition attack accurate 70.0%