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Samarth Bansal
@PySamarth
“existence precedes essence” / building @wholetruthfood / [email protected]
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    Samarth Bansal
    @PySamarth
    Feb 13, 2022
    🚨✍️ 28% of Shark Tank India pitches were food/beverage startups. Many claimed their products are healthier than Big Food. But their nutritional charts reveal the same old tricks that food marketers have used for decades to mislead consumers. 🧵(1/8) samarthbansal.com/shark-tank-ind…
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    Samarth Bansal
    @PySamarth
    Apr 4, 2019
    NEW: We take you inside Association of Billion Minds, Amit Shah's secretive consulting unit, that does everything from recommending election candidates to creating fake news sites and spread digital propaganda. It's a long story: read, share and think. huffingtonpost.in/entry/how-modi…
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    Samarth Bansal
    @PySamarth
    Jan 15, 2022
    .@thewire_in's TekFog investigation has glaring holes. Claims fall apart on closer scrutiny. Failures in this reporting point to a critical, underlying problem with Indian journalism today. Published this critique in my newsletter. Please do read. samarthbansal.com/the-wires-tek-…
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    Samarth Bansal
    @PySamarth
    Oct 20, 2022
    The Wire's Great Meta Takedown was a manufactured story based on flimsy & poorly-sourced evidence—we just don’t know who manufactured it & how. This is what happens when you don't follow basic journalistic rules of sourcing & verification. 🧵My analysis for fab @splainerin:
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    Samarth Bansal
    @PySamarth
    Oct 18, 2022
    The Wire—as an institution—dismissed my critique of their Tek Fog reporting. No internal reflection, no lessons learnt, no accountability. So not surprised with what we learnt today. Good journalism is an outcome of good process. Please follow it. theinterval.co/the-wires-tek-…
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    Samarth Bansal
    @PySamarth
    May 21, 2019
    For polling nerds: I compared NDA vote share estimates of CVoter and My Axis India for 23 states. In 12 states, the difference between their projections is greater than 3% points. Note that a swing of 3% can have a significant impact on the verdict. @YRDeshmukh @PradeepGuptaAMI
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    Samarth Bansal
    @PySamarth
    Apr 30, 2019
    Has @INCIndia tactically fielded candidates in UP to help the SP-BSP Gathbandhan? Our analysis based on 52 UP seats. If traditional caste calculus holds, Congress & gathbandhan likely to help each other in 36 seats. In 16, Congress cuts into anti-BJP votes
    Lok Sabha Election 2024: Latest Elections News, Updates, Announcement
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    Samarth Bansal
    @PySamarth
    Mar 26, 2024
    I read ED docs, court hearings, & bail judgments on cases against AAP's Kejriwal & Sisodia to understand the story behind opposition arrests, which is just a story of the draconian PMLA law. My analysis in today's @splainerin.
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    The arrest of Mr Kejriwal: A PMLA case
    The unprecedented arrest of Arvind Kejriwal reveals the high price of an anti-corruption law that may keep him in jail.
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    Samarth Bansal
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    May 2, 2019
    Some Twitter stats based on an analysis of 224 verified profiles of Lok Sabha MPs/ministers: 1. Who gets retweeted the most? @RahulGandhi. From Oct 18 to April 19, his median retweet count was 2.5 times more than @narendramodi. Data for all MPs here: indiatoday.in/elections/lok-…
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    Samarth Bansal
    @PySamarth
    May 3, 2024
    🗞️Friends, some news: On World Press Freedom Day, excited to share that I'm starting The Plank—a new magazine to help our readers become better citizens. Here is our manifesto/pitch call: theplank.co/pitch-call Send me story ideas. Can you please share/RT? Thank you!
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    Samarth Bansal
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    Sep 11, 2021
    I just bought a subscription. Not as a consumer of news, but as a citizen who cares about press freedom. More power to team @newslaundry
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    Abhinandan Sekhri
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    Sep 11, 2021
    Thanks again for your support. My statement is below. You can support us here newslaundry.com/subscription?r… Please spread the message. 🙏🏽
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    Samarth Bansal
    @PySamarth
    Jul 22, 2023
    ✍️ Excited (and nervous) to share my latest essay: The Romantic Idiot—my unfiltered dating diary, chronicling a year of endless misadventures. #longread ❣️I wrote this for myself. To understand. To discover. Maybe it resonates with some of you?! 🔗Link:
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    The Romantic Idiot
    One year, endless misadventures—my unfiltered dating diary
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    Samarth Bansal
    @PySamarth
    Dec 21, 2024
    🚨 Excited max to share that The Plank—our long-form journalistic magazine—launches tomorrow. Please sign up for our mailing list. (Link in next tweet.) Had so much fun building this. So much editorial (and startup) learning already, and witnessed incredible belief—from writers
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    Samarth Bansal
    @PySamarth
    May 3, 2024
    🗞️Friends, some news: On World Press Freedom Day, excited to share that I'm starting The Plank—a new magazine to help our readers become better citizens. Here is our manifesto/pitch call: theplank.co/pitch-call Send me story ideas. Can you please share/RT? Thank you!
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    Samarth Bansal
    @PySamarth
    Mar 5, 2019
    NEW: @gvrkiran and I collected data from over 2000 politics-focussed public WhatsApp groups in the run-up to 2018 assembly elections to identify themes that get viral in India's “fake news” ecosystem. In today's @htTweets: 3 key points (1/n) hindustantimes.com/india-news/dec…