Asian News International
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| April 8 2025 |
An appeal of the Delhi High Court's order against Wikimedia Foundation was denied, with a slight revision to the original order.
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| April 2 2025 | Delhi High Court ordered Wikimedia Foundation to remove allegedly defamatory content, allow ANI's employees to edit the Wikipedia article, and restrain platform users and administrators from publishing defamatory content about the news agency. |
| March 17 2025 | Supreme Court of India reviewed a plea filed by Wikimedia Foundation against the article takedown order by the Delhi High Court, questioning the court's approach to the matter. |
| January 28 2025 | Scheduled follow-up hearing of the ANI vs OpenAI lawsuit at the Delhi High Court. |
| November 2024 | Asian News International sued OpenAI for allegedly reusing the agency's content for model training and creating false stories attributed to the agency. |
| November 19 2024 | The Delhi High Court first heard the lawsuit filed by ANI against OpenAI regarding copyright infringement and unauthorized use of content. |
| November 11 2024 | An arrangement was reached in the High Court for Wikimedia Foundation to serve summons to involved users while protecting their email identities under a sealed cover. |
| October 2024 | OpenAI blocked Asian News International (ANI) through its opt-out policy for web scrapers. |
| October 28 2024 | Wikimedia Foundation agreed to the court's request to disclose identifying information of online users who edited the ANI Wikipedia page. |
| October 21 2024 | Wikimedia Foundation suspended access to the Wikipedia article about Asian News International due to a court order, potentially the first time an English Wikipedia page was taken down by court order. |
| September 2024 | Asian News International (ANI) filed a lawsuit against Netflix, alleging copyright infringement related to the web series IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack. The lawsuit claimed that Netflix used ANI's video clips without obtaining proper permission. |
| September 5 2024 | Delhi High Court threatened to hold Wikimedia guilty of contempt for failing to disclose information about Wikipedia article editors and warned potential site blocking in India. |
| August 2024 | ANI disseminated misinformation about attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh by sharing a video of Mohammad Suny Hawlader, a Muslim man seeking justice for his missing son, which was falsely portrayed as a Hindu father's plea. The video spread widely on social media before being deleted. |
| July 2024 | Asian News International (ANI) filed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation in the Delhi High Court, claiming defamation through its Wikipedia article and seeking legal remedies. |
| July 2024 | Asian News International (ANI) filed a lawsuit against Press Trust of India (PTI) for copyright infringement, alleging plagiarism of video clips showing a Spicejet aircraft's air conditioning breakdown. ANI sought 2 crore rupees in damages. |
| 2023 | A follow-up investigation by EU DisinfoLab discovered that ANI had consistently quoted non-existent think tanks and experts associated with the Srivastava Group. |
| July 2023 | ANI incorrectly blamed Muslims for sexual assault during the Manipur violence. The news agency later apologized, attributing the mistake to an erroneous reading of Manipur police tweets. |
| April 2023 | ANI spread misinformation by falsely reporting a photo of a padlocked grave in Hyderabad, India, claiming it was locked to prevent necrophilia. Fact-checking revealed the grave was actually secured to prevent unauthorized burials. |
| July 2021 | ANI falsely reported on Chinese weightlifter Hou Zhihui's alleged potential doping test, claiming she might be tested by the International Testing Agency (ITA). The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and ITA denied knowledge of such tests. |
| 2020 | EU DisinfoLab investigation revealed that Asian News International (ANI) was publishing pro-Modi government disinformation, including opinion pieces falsely attributed to European politicians, sourced from a network of fake news websites run by the Srivastava Group. |
| 2019 | An Association for Computing Machinery conference paper identified ANI as a ruling party-aligned news outlet with high engagement among BJP members of parliament. |
| 2019 | Following the enactment of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, ANI was found to selectively cover protests, only reporting on pro-legislation demonstrations while excluding anti-legislation protests. |
| 2014 | ANI grew closer to the government after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was elected to power, marking a significant shift in the agency's reporting and relationship with the ruling party. |
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