The Wire editor Jahnavi Sen is in the news headlines after her news company has been charged for defaming other organizations with the news viral on Twitter
The Delhi Police on Monday that was 31st October 2022 carried out searches at the homes of The Wire editors Siddharth Varadarajan, MK Venu and Jahnavi Sen.
The raids were conducted after Amit Malviya filed a first information report which had charges of forgery, defamation as well as cheating.
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“The Wire” can redeem itself easily by holding a seminar on "Fascism in Modi's India”.
Keynote speakers:
S Varadarajan on Media ethics
Prof. Nidhi Razdan on Harvard’s rigorous standards
Tarun Tejpal on Gender equality
Swati Chaturvedi on Social media
Rohini Singh on Real Estate— Rajeev Mantri (@RMantri) October 31, 2022
Delhi Police raids residences of ‘The Wire’ co-founders Siddharth Varadarajan, MK Venu, staffer Jahnavi Sen
https://t.co/QCtqFWm2D3— Nupur J Sharma (@UnSubtleDesi) October 31, 2022
The Wire's 2 stories:
Jan: Tek Fog
Oct: MetaInternational media covered The Wire story that women journalists in India harassed by Tek Fog tool
Wire removed Tek Fog story when their fake story on Meta busted
Now, when complaint filed, The Wire put all blame on its journalist
— Anshul Saxena (@AskAnshul) October 31, 2022
#WireTheLiar some money coz they'll be needing it when @Meta , @andymstone sue them.@svaradarajan and @JahanviSen it would've been better if you had not fallen for your biases and put this out.
Hey @BJPCentralMedia about time you make some hashtags & make these liars viral https://t.co/vCGsOP4DSe
— DelhiWanderer (@DelhiCan_10) October 16, 2022
“The police came at around 4.40 pm and left at 6 pm,” Venu told media, They said they have come here on behalf of Delhi Police Crime Branch for the FIR filed by Amit Malviya. They have taken my iPhone and iPad for cloning.” He confirmed that a raid was underway at Varadarajan’s home too.
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Malviya’s complaint is in relation to a series of articles about Meta. The Wire had claimed that Malviya who heads the social media cell of the saffron party had special privileges through an official Instagram program known as the X-Check which made sure that any posts he has reported are removed from the platform immediately. According to them these posts were removed with “no questions asked”. Meta is the parent firm of Instagram.
Despite Varadarajan, Venu and Jahanvi Sen FIR had been named for another editor of The Wire named Sidharth Bhatia. On 29th of October the digital publication filed a complaint against researcher Devesh Kumar who had worked on the Meta articles claiming that he has been “fabricating and supplying documents, emails and many other materials such as videos with a view to making damage to The Wire and its reputation.”
Jahnavi Sen Professional Career And Education
Jahnavi Sen is an Executive News Producer as well as Deputy Editor at The Wire. She works on issues related to gender, human rights and labor. Jahanvi Sen is the editor of #Grit which is The Wire’s special project on manual scavenging and sanitation and has received a grant from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting for a series of articles on India’s prisons. Sen attended St. Stephens College in Delhi.