Two days after the Delhi Police registered a First Information Report (FIR) against the digital news platform, a team of Crime Branch officials conducted searches at the houses of four editors of the organisation – including its founder and editor-in-chief, Siddharth Varadarajan.
The Wire has filed a police complaint against their “tech-expert” Devesh Kumar, for allegedly supplying fabricated material on Meta and Instagram to damage the reputation of The Wire. Kumar had worked on a series of articles about parent company Meta that owns Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram giving privileged access to BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya. […]