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1. RW media houses discussing it up front and bashing the Wire (e.g. Republic, Times Now, OpIndia etc)
2. Liberal/LW media houses limiting the coverage (e.g. NDTV, NYT, WaPo etc)
However, some important questions have been raised on Twitter which unfortunately both RW and LW media are not bothering to discuss . These are:
Questions the Left is asking:
1. Could the Wire have been the victim of an elaborate trap? Just like Nidhi Razdan's fake Harvard offer letter?
2. What will happen with Amit Malaviya's defamation case? Since the Wire has been constantly criticising the judiciary, could the judiciary now "teach them a lesson" and slap a huge damages award on the Wire? Which judge will hear the case?
3. Also, why has Malaviya said he will file both criminal and civil cases? why the need for a criminal case here? Will the Wire editor be arrested?
4. What the is role of star NLSIU alum Pranesh Prakash (CIS founder) in all this? In many respects, it is he who demolished the Wire's story by contacting cyber experts. He has also been taking sly digs at liberals in recent tweets. Why is Pranesh doing this? Is he/CIS batting for Meta? Or has he shifted his ideology to anti-woke libertarianism, similar to Elon Musk and Joe Rogan?
Questions the Right is asking:
1. Why has the blame been based on a relatively low-level reporter, when the report was in the name of someone senior in the Wire and this person defended the story vigorously on Twitter (Jahanvi Sen)? The theory put forward by some Twitter users is that the junior reporter is a humble non-nepo kid from Bihar, whereas Jahanvi's lineage makes her influential in the Delhi liberal ecosystem (according to Wikipedia, she is the daughter of Jayati Ghosh and the late Abhijit Sen).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhijit_Sen
2. Many liberal think tanks and newspapers declared India to be an autocracy and ranked India low on press freedom based on the Wire's Tok Fog report. Will those claims now be revised?
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https://thewire.in/media/the-wire-editorial-to-our-readers-an-apology-and-a-promise