Satyameter Evidence-linked accuracy tracking for Indian TV news

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Navika Kumar

Times Now The Newshour English
88.5% 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 88.5%

95% confidence interval 77–95%

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.
. 52 checked of 72 checkable · 109 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.
 52/72

Verdict mix

72 of 109 extracted claims checked

72 of 109 extracted claims checked.

Coverage profile

Share of extracted claims by topic — click to drill in
crime 29% opposition attack 29% communal religion 24% governance economy 15% international 3%

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 24 claims →
Individuals 24 System & institutions 20 Government 4 Opposition 42

Flagged claims

Judged inaccurate or misleading in the checked sample

Episodes analysed

40 broadcasts

All claims & verdicts

12 claims · filtered from 109
Claims from this anchor, newest first.
ClaimTopicVerdictConf.
Accused like Lavkush Mishra are now facing bulldozer action, while accountability appears to stop at the lowest rung. selective accountability crime misleading 72.0%
When Rahul Gandhi was portrayed as Parshuram and given a milk abhishekam, the critics now objecting stayed silent. Rahul Gandhi abhishekam opposition attack misleading 72.0%
34 countries have now honoured Prime Minister Modi with their top distinctions; this is not a one-off instance. Modi's international honours international misleading 62.0%
A prescribed form (Form 8) exists for corrections in voter rolls and sufficient time was given in all states, yet the opposition parties cannot say how many such forms they filed. Form 8 corrections governance economy misleading 60.0%
Rahul Gandhi has criticised SIR as an anti-national act, yet his own party's Chief Minister is encouraging participation in it. Rahul Gandhi SIR stance opposition attack misleading 62.0%
The drivers who were leading the donation theft are now in jail, while the trust officials they worked for remain part of the trust. accused officials retained communal religion misleading 65.0%
The drivers of the trust officials were overseeing the entire working of the Ram Mandir donation portfolio, yet the officials remain in place as if nothing happened. drivers running donations communal religion misleading 70.0%
The man who was managing the temple trust, under whose nose the embezzlement took place, is still in charge of the trust's affairs. trust accountability communal religion misleading 60.0%
Investigators have so far recovered more than ₹1 crore, and the alleged loot was confined to cash donations alone. cash donation theft communal religion misleading 60.0%
The UP elections are around the corner in a few months, and the opposition has chosen the moment when the donation-theft investigation has put the spotlight on the Ram Mandir to launch its campaign. UP campaign timing governance economy misleading 60.0%
Ajay Rai had wanted to go with his supporters but did not have permission to do so; now that permission has been given, he is going — everything happened as per process and procedure. temple visit permissions governance economy misleading 70.0%
The Special Investigation Team questioned Ram Mandir Trust general secretary Champat Rai for nearly three hours, and sources claim some trust members allegedly received up to 40% commissions for handling donations. donation theft probe crime misleading 65.0%