Question

Find a story in the news in the past year that was partially or fully retracted or corrected after it was discovered that the field research was not done properly. Explain what was done incorrectly that led to the error, and what steps should have been taken in order to avoid the issue. Be sure to include the news story in your submission.

Answer 1

Last year the Indian government declared the CAA protest in India to be an anti-Muslim bill that seeks to take the citizenship of Indian Muslims. Al-Zajira, a US news media proposed this. The bill was not to take any citizenship of any Indian which is the largest democracy in the globe. However, the spark of the fake news consumed the people to take up the protest rally where the people believed the fake news which was disastrous. The media like CNN, MSNBC took up the story which further infuriated the lives of Indians across the borders around the globe. The bill was to give citizenship to the persecuted minorities in India coming from Muslim majority nations like Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. The three nations across the Indian border are majorly Muslim dominated areas where the Hindus, christens, Buddhists and Sikhs are the minority and are persecuted for their religious beliefs. The media never highlighted this point but went with the fake news developed by a lobby to show India in a gloomy light. The people got the message and made all arrangements to stay back home and not protest. The media never carried out the later developments of the US support for the bill or the actual content of the bill to propose such. The fake news was a great damager for the people in India who lives together irrespective of their religious faiths and beliefs. The media simply stopped carrying the issue after the damage was made and the later news came in without this mention of the CAA or protests of it. Hence the media never read the bill or the amendments to suggest where the government went wrong but carried a narrative build on predictive false lines.