This week on #NLHafta, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Manisha Pande, and Mehraj D Lone are joined by Pratik Sinha, founder of Alt News.<br /><br />First up, the panel discusses the #WallStreetJournal report on political partisanship within Facebook India. The panelists talk about Facebook’s “special relationship” with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, how news dissemination has changed over the past decade, and whether social media should be considered a public service.<br /><br />The conversation also spans new developments in the investigation into actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, lawyer Prashant Bhushan’s “ridiculous” sentencing hearing for being ruled guilty of contempt of court, and the controversy surrounding the release of #GunjanSaxena: The Kargil Girl.<br /><br />Tune into #NLHafta on all leading podcast platforms: https://www.newslaundry.com/nl-hafta<br /><br />Timecodes<br /><br />0:00 : Headlines<br /><br />08:46 : Facebook being a platform for hate in India<br /><br />39:01 : Subscriber letters, rumours around SSR’s death, transparency at Newslaundry, liberalism in Islam, secularism<br /><br />01:18:22 : Prashant Bhushan and the Supreme Court<br /><br />01:22:27 : Gunjan Saxena and the IAF's reaction<br /><br />01:30:11 : On making Bengaluru rioters pay for damage<br /><br />01:33:01 : Subscriber letters<br /><br />01:44:17 : Recommendations<br /><br />Sign up for our all-new media newsletter: https://bit.ly/StopPressNewsletter<br /><br />Support independent media and subscribe to Newslaundry: http://bit.ly/paytokeepnewsfree<br /><br />To watch this and many more videos, click on http://www.newslaundry.com/<br /><br />Follow and engage with us on social media:<br />Facebook: https://facebook.com/newslaundry<br />Twitter: https://twitter.com/newslaundry<br />Instagram: https://instagram.com/newslaundry
