A high-profile fact-checker's incarceration has a chilling effect on India's already subdued media
Arrested for an innocuous meme he tweeted four years ago, more than a hundred policemen surrounded Mohammed Zubair when he was brought before a magistrate.Independent journalism is being made a de facto crime in what is supposed to be the world’s biggest democracy, with Zubair the latest offender.
“By arresting me and filing multiple cases against me – three of them for an accurate fact-check – they wanted to show that they can target anybody,” Zubair says. “If you’re a Muslim journalist or a Muslim activist, or for that matter any independent journalist, you could be in trouble.” Trust in journalism in India is at a nadir as the mainstream media mostly toes the Modi government’s line. Only a handful of digital-only news publishers have dared to cross it. Having banded together as an association of digital platforms, withas a founder member, these newly minted news organizations have been producing high-quality journalism disproportionate to their humble means.
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