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Media Bias: Bias
Reuters Misrepresents, Taints and Denigrates Diwali as noisy and smoky.

Perpetrator: Neha Arora and Mayank Bhardwaj
Media Bias: Distortion, Distortion of texts
Dipawali was claimed to be a Buddhist frstival and the actual name was Deep Daan Utsav which belongs to Ashoka

Pending Review
Media Bias: Bias, Bully
Independent Generalizes and Accuses Hindus of Growing Religious Bigotry

All sorts of abuses are hurled at Hindus, scaling the social media attack so as to generalize the whole Hindu population without at all mentioning that communal tension has been fanned by other…

Perpetrator: Mihir Bose Pending Review
The Print Falsely Claims Diwali isn't a Hindu festival.

The article claims that Diwali is actually a festival celebrated by Buddhists and that the "usurpation" of Diwali by Hinduism is a "contemporary practice of projecting festivals as homogenized and…

Perpetrator: Kalyani Pending Review
Media Bias: Bias
Instagram Silences HinduOnCampus, Deletes Instagram Post Twice for Exposing Hinduphobia

Upon highlighting the Hinduphobic post of "Other Collective", a student-run organization in UC Davis, that called for "Say No to Diwali" and maligned Hindus, the Instagram post of HinduOnCampus was…

Perpetrator: Instagram
San Mateo, CA
Scroll gives One-Sided, anti-Hindu account of violence in Tripura and Bangladesh.

The article claims that the violence against Hindus in Bangladesh is somewhat provoked by discrimination against Muslims in India. The article also claims that while the violence in Tripura is…

Perpetrator: Shoaib Daniyal
Media Bias: Bias
Twitter Silences Bangladesh Hindu Unity Council and Iskcon Bangladesh. Deletes Accounts for Reporting Pogroms of Hindus

Twitter deleted the accounts of Bangladesh Hindu Unity Council (@UnityCouncilBD) and Iskcon Bangladesh (@IskconBDH) for reporting killings of Hindus, vandalization of places of worship and other…

Perpetrator: Twitter
Dhaka
Religion Dispatches Grossly Compares American Hindus to White Supremacists.

The article claims that Hindus essentially have a fake version of history as they “imagine the Indian past as an era of Hindu glory that was destroyed by despotic Muslim conquerors”. This reduces the…

Perpetrator: Manan Ahmed, Rohit Chopra, Audrey Truschke Pending Review
Media Bias: Bias
NPR makes subtle claim of Patriarchy in Hindu weddings with Malefic intent. 

The article mentions practices such as kanyadaan to be regressive and praise those women who are not following the ancient rituals exactly. While there is no problem with women wanting to conduct…

Perpetrator: Lauren Frayer