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OpIndia.com
File:Opindia Logo.png
Type of site
News, Opinion
OwnerSwarajya
Websitewww.opindia.com [archive]
Alexa rank4,812 (India) (February 2018)[1]
LaunchedDecember 2014; 9 years ago (2014-12)
Current statusActive

OpIndia.com is an English language Indian blog that publishes op-eds and curates content from various sources. The website is owned by Swarajya magazine, and is libertarian in its outlook.

History

OpIndia.com was launched in December 2014 by a group of academicians and active social media users.[2] The website states that the Indian mainstream media has a left-leaning bias and thus to provide a platform for alternate discourse, it will give space to right-liberal ideas and narrative.[3]

The website soon gained popularity on social media especially for its focus on highlighting factual inaccuracies and misreporting by the mainstream media. The website calls them 'media lies'.[4] A report by the OpIndia.com highlighting how the Indian mainstream media misreported about Geographical indication given to an Indian sweet Rasgulla was acknowledged by the mainstream publications and clarifications were published.[5]

OpIndia.com was quoted as the source by the mainstream media for an exclusive report about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting some social media users in July 2015.[6]

In October 2016, it was announced that OpIndia.com was being acquired by the Swarajya Group that publishes Swarajya magazine. Swarajya Group's Chief Strategy Officer Rahul Roushan was mandated to lead the post-acquisition initiatives.[7]

Features

Most of the OpIndia.com articles are on media criticism and rebuttals to opinions expressed in the mainstream media. The website has been able to force changes in articles published by the mainstream media outlets after it pointed out errors or bias in those.[8][9] In July 2015, OpIndia.com published an open letter written by a cop to those Indians opposing capital punishment to Mumbai serial blasts convict Yakub Memon, which was republished by many mainstream media channels.[10]

OpIndia.com also allows its readers to write articles, which it publishes either on the main website or on its community driven chapter "My Voice" after moderation.[11] Other article formats include satirical write-ups, listicles, open letters, and interviews. One such interview was shared on Twitter by the Prime Minister of India.[12]

Wikipedia bias and censorship

It is one of the few (or only) major media outlets that are censored by wikipedia in their blacklist.

OpIndia is also the only major media outlet in their list of fake news sites.

In an article, OpIndia says: This is a question that OpIndia has often been asked – why is the Wiki page of OpIndia so negative, and the answer is rather simple. From the very inception of OpIndia, the portal has tried to break the left hegemony and present the truth as is. Most recently, for example, OpIndia took on the deeply discriminatory Halal industry that ensures the employment of Muslims and not of Hindus. Before that, OpIndia took on the reportage of the Delhi Riots. While the entire Left establishment tried to paint the riots as an Anti-Muslim genocide, through our persistent reportage, we showed how it was an organised riot against Hindus, the seeds of which were sown in November itself. Further, we have taken on the mighty BBC, exposed scams by the Congress scions Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, exposed hitherto unknown facts about the Bofors scandal, thwarted attempts to paint the death of a judge as a murder, exposed the nefarious designs behind the Rafale tirade and published several such reports and fact-checks that decimated the fake narrative by the Left.
After the reportage we do, the attacks on our credibility and existence were a given. We expected it.
To answer the question, the OpIndia page on Wikipedia is negative because OpIndia dared to challenge the ecosystem and the foot-soldiers of the ecosystem decided to hit back at us. [13]

References

  1. "OpIndia.com Site Info" [archive]. Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
  2. "News and current affairs website OpIndia.com launched" [archive].
  3. "Rules for submission of articles on OpIndia.com" [archive].
  4. "Media Lies List" [archive].
  5. "Calm down, all is not lost for Odisha's claim on rosogolla – India Today" [archive].
  6. "No Abusive Language, Stay Positive on Social Media: PM to Supporters" [archive].
  7. "Announcement: OpIndia Is Now Part Of The Swarajya Group" [archive]..
  8. "Firstpost changes its article after OpIndia.com points out errors" [archive].
  9. "After OpIndia report, DNA updates misleading story on Dr Kafeel Khan" [archive].
  10. "An open letter by a 'thulla' to all those opposing Yakub Memon's capital punishment" [archive].
  11. "Welcome to "My Voice" – your voice given an audience by OpIndia.com" [archive].
  12. "Narendra Modi on Twitter: "Taking Swachh Bharat Mission to all parts of India…#Shramdaan is a very good effort. #MyCleanIndia"" [archive].
  13. https://www.opindia.com/2020/06/wikipedia-opindia-crusade-left-bias-wiki-editors-negative-all-you-need-to-know/ [archive]

External links

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaSpeaks/comments/hxn6wd/nupur_sharma_ive_come_to_learn_that_the_very/ [archive] [Nupur Sharma} I’ve come to learn that the very bunch that keeps asking every random company to deplatform us has spammed Amazon to not publish our report. If they succeed, we will simply release it on our website, but release we shall. : IndiaSpeaks https://www.opindia.com/2020/06/nupur-j-sharma-opindia-vs-state-of-west-bengal-personal-experience-supreme-court/ [archive]

https://www.opindia.com/2024/05/note-to-readers-international-press-target-opindia-wired-defund-deplatform/ [archive]

https://web.archive.org/web/20221221034937/http://indiawiki.org/OpIndia.html [archive]