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'The Wire' files police complaint against ex-consultant Devesh Kumar over fabricated story against BJP's Amit Malviya
•On Saturday, the Delhi Police had filed an FIR against 'The Wire' and its editors based on a complaint by Malviya, who accused it of "cheating and forgery" and "tarnishing" his reputation
BJP leader Amit Malviya files FIR against 'The Wire'; alleges defamation, criminal conspiracy
Fp Staff •'The Wire' had reportedly posted reports that alleged that BJP leader Amit Malviya colluded with Meta, the parent company of social media giant Instagram in removing content deemed unfavourable to the saffron party. The reports have since been retracted by the portal
The Wire’s Meta story: Amit Malviya to lodge FIR for forgery, cheating, defamation, criminal conspiracy
Fp Staff •BJP's Amit Malviya said that 'The Wire' and some other people entered into a 'criminal conspiracy with intent to malign and tarnish' his reputation
Explained: BJP’s Amit Malviya vs ‘The Wire’ and the role of Meta
Fp Explainers •BJP’s IT cell chief Amit Malviya has said he will drag The Wire, a news website, to court over reports that he holds special privileges to get posts removed from Instagram, which is owned by Meta. Now the publication has retracted all its articles about the social media platform’s moderation process
BJP's Amit Malviya to file criminal, civil case against ‘The Wire', says 'will sue them for tarnishing reputation'
Fp Staff •In its now retracted article 'The Wire' had claimed that Amit Malviya holds special privileges that enable him to get posts removed from social media website Instagram
We Own This City focuses on the rot within an institution in a reminder of The Wire
Archita Kashyap •We Own This City is a disturbing comment through real incidents that makes you introspect on the power of guns and a badge anywhere; and how an entire system work towards protecting those that commit wrongdoing in the name of a greater good
We Own This City review: Spiritual follow-up to The Wire exposes a failure of policing and public policy
Prahlad Srihari •We Own This City takes nonlinear storytelling to an extreme, but once you get on its wavelength it rewards your patience.
Twenty years of The Wire: How HBO show put America's crime underbelly on pop culture map
Archita Kashyap •The biggest achievement of The Wire, which premiered on HBO in 2002, has to be the direct tone and uncompromising focus on the flaws in America’s law and order system and class divide.
Four face charges in connection to drug overdose death of Michael K Williams
•Police in New York and Puerto Rico have arrested four men who allegedly sold the drugs that actor Michael K Williams took before his overdose death
How Michael K Williams breathed life into complex, contradictory characters
•Playing such original, sensitive, vulnerable characters not only expanded our universe of Black masculinity but also bled into Michael K Williams’ own life, making it hard for him to separate the craft from its creator