Satyameter Evidence-linked accuracy tracking for Indian TV news

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Rajat Sharma

India TV Aaj Ki Baat Hindi
81.2% 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 81.3%

95% confidence interval 70–89%

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.
. 64 checked of 291 checkable · 350 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.
 64/291

Verdict mix

108 of 376 extracted claims checked

108 of 376 extracted claims checked.

Coverage profile

Share of extracted claims by topic — click to drill in
communal religion 29% governance economy 24% crime 16% international 11% opposition attack 9% pakistan security 4% education 4% infrastructure transport 1% entertainment sports 1% science tech 1% environment 0% other 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 121 claims →
Individuals 121 System & institutions 27 Government 4 Opposition 80 A minority community 5 Foreign actor 37 Media 1

Flagged claims

Judged inaccurate or misleading in the checked sample

Episodes analysed

15 broadcasts

All claims & verdicts

376 claims
Claims from this anchor, newest first.
ClaimTopicVerdictConf.
Not just the BJP but NDA allies kept winning elections on Modi's name and work; no leader in Indian politics has ever received this much public support. NDA electoral success governance economy not checked —
Unlike the usual anti-incumbency after long tenures, public trust in Modi has continuously increased. Modi popularity governance economy not checked —
Narendra Modi today became the longest-serving elected Prime Minister of India since independence, breaking the record previously held by Jawaharlal Nehru. Modi tenure record governance economy not checked —
Elon Musk will launch the world's biggest IPO, raising 1.77 trillion through the SpaceX IPO. SpaceX IPO science tech not checked —
Iran today completely closed the Strait of Hormuz, once again halting oil supply worldwide. Strait of Hormuz closure international not checked —
Three Indian crew members — sailors Aditya Sharma and Shivend Chaurasia and chief engineer Suresh Patnala — were killed in a US missile strike on a Palau-registered commercial tanker near the Strait of Hormuz, while the remaining 21 Indian crew were rescued by Oman, and India summoned the US chargé d'affaires in protest. Indian sailors killed international not checked —
The 8 April ceasefire between the United States and Iran has completely collapsed, and Iran today attacked five American military bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain, also striking the US Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain and the US embassy in Baghdad with a drone. US-Iran ceasefire collapse international not checked —
The UPPCL chairman imposing a surcharge and raising electricity prices on his own was wrong; he should have consulted the minister before deciding. unilateral surcharge decision governance economy not checked —
UP energy minister A.K. Sharma wrote a letter, dated 2 June, accusing UPPCL chairman Ashish Goyal of acting arbitrarily — including imposing a 10% surcharge on electricity bills without informing the minister, who learned of it only when people received inflated bills. UPPCL surcharge dispute governance economy not checked —
An audit of Karnataka's Griha Lakshmi scheme found that Rs 128 crore from the state treasury was transferred to accounts of people who are dead, with money flowing for the past five months into accounts of nearly 1,95,000 deceased women, prompting D.K. Shivakumar to order a review of the scheme. welfare scheme leakage governance economy not checked —
Sachin Pilot has inherited his father Rajesh Pilot's courage and will prove to be a good leader for Rajasthan. Pilot leadership praise opposition attack not checked —
The Gehlot-Pilot feud has resurfaced because the Congress wants to hand command of Rajasthan to Sachin Pilot, a decision Ashok Gehlot will clearly not like. Rajasthan Congress leadership opposition attack not checked —
An election petition typically takes five to six years to be decided, by which time the elected member's term is already over. election petition delays governance economy not checked —
After Meenakshi Natarajan's Rajya Sabha nomination was rejected, the Supreme Court refused to stay the election process, and the returning officer declared all three BJP candidates — Tarun Chugh, Rajneesh Agrawal and Mahesh Kewat — elected unopposed from Madhya Pradesh. Rajya Sabha unopposed election governance economy not checked —
Shatrughan Sinha and Babul Supriyo kept knocking on the BJP's door by praising Modi, and only began expressing sympathy for Mamata after the door did not open — their stance reflects neither loyalty nor morality, only the BJP's 'no entry' board. turncoat opportunism opposition attack not checked —
Whatever rebel TMC faction forms will support the NDA, Bhupendra Yadav will decide who is allowed into it, and entry is barred for leaders who left the BJP such as Kirti Azad, Shatrughan Sinha and Babul Supriyo. rebel faction formation governance economy not checked —
The TMC lost the election, 64 of its 80 MLAs have deserted the party, 19 Lok Sabha MPs have rebelled, and everyone holds Abhishek Banerjee responsible for this ruin. TMC electoral collapse opposition attack not checked —
The trigger for Kalyan Banerjee's anger was that Abhishek Banerjee changed his lawyer without informing him — Kalyan was told by a midnight phone call from Abhishek's office that the High Court case would now be argued by someone else, and the case was given to Kalyan's junior lawyer. lawyer change dispute opposition attack not checked —
It is clear that the allegations against the TMC of intimidation, extortion, tolabaji, cut-money and corruption were not baseless, and the evidence is now emerging one by one. TMC corruption evidence opposition attack not checked —
Acting on a public tip that TMC members had hidden weapons, the STF raided a pond in Basirhat and recovered an arms cache of 16 guns and around 25,000 live cartridges packed in polythene underwater. Basirhat arms cache crime not checked —
Cash worth Rs 1.77 crore was recovered from a locked room of Harnet School in North 24 Parganas — allegedly the illegal money of TMC leader and Kanchrapara municipality chairman Kamal Adhikari — police needed three counting machines, and the school's cashier and assistant accountant were arrested. school cash recovery opposition attack not checked —
Police today paraded TMC leader Jahangir Khan through the streets of Falta; he faces charges of extortion, illegal land grabbing and intimidation, and was arrested from the Nepal border. TMC leader extortion arrest crime not checked —
In Durgapur today, a crowd threw rotten eggs and tomatoes at TMC leader Sukumar Dutta, who has been arrested by police in a corruption and extortion case, as he was being taken to court. TMC leader corruption arrest crime not checked —
A crowd surrounded Abhishek Banerjee at Kolkata airport today, jostled him and shouted 'thief, thief' slogans, and police had to form a cordon to get him safely to his car. airport public backlash opposition attack not checked —
The High Court ruled that the CID has the right to investigate the fake MLA-signatures case, ordered Abhishek Banerjee to appear at the CID office by 6 PM, while directing police to take no coercive action against him for two weeks and to give at least 24 hours' notice for further questioning. fake MLA signatures case governance economy not checked —