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

6 claims · filtered from 376
Claims from this anchor, newest first.
ClaimTopicVerdictConf.
For one and a half years the RSS top leadership had been asking Champat Rai to appoint professionals and build a system, but he kept stalling and blocked a finalized CEO appointment by claiming Nanaji Deshmukh had once vetoed that person's appointment in Chitrakoot. blocked professionalization communal religion unverifiable 60.0%
At his Bareilly event for the cow-as-national-mother campaign, only four people in a crowd of hundreds raised their hands as supporters, after which Swami Abhimukteshwaranand angrily abandoned the programme midway. cow campaign flop communal religion unverifiable 60.0%
For about one and a half years the RSS and VHP repeatedly asked Champat Rai to build a proper system and appoint experts, but he remained adamant and refused. ignored reform demands communal religion unverifiable 60.0%
The cash theft began during the Kumbh Mela, averaged ₹5-6 lakh per day, and by the time the matter surfaced on June 4 an estimated more than ₹4 crore had been stolen. theft scale estimate communal religion unverifiable 60.0%
When the SIT questioned Tinnu Yadav about a jewelled necklace seen in his hand on CCTV, he said he had given it to Champat Rai; Champat Rai later said the necklace is with him, on record and safe. jewelled necklace custody crime unverifiable 60.0%
Tinnu Yadav is the richest of the eight arrested accused, owning three luxurious houses in Ayodhya, a large hostel, six hotels and a partnership in a restaurant. Tinnu Yadav wealth crime unverifiable 55.0%