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Found a story about a factory fire in Gujarat that vanished from local news sites
I was in Ahmedabad last month visiting family. Scrolling my phone, I saw a short report about a chemical factory fire in a nearby industrial zone. Three workers were missing. I bookmarked it. Next morning, the link was dead. Searched every major Gujarati news portal. Nothing. It was just gone. I asked a cousin who works at a print shop. He said he heard the owner paid to kill the story. No fines, no investigation. Just silence. How can a whole incident disappear like that? Has anyone else seen a local story get scrubbed clean?
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the_alex26d ago
Paid to kill the story" is exactly how it works. I saw the same thing with a bad car crash near Vadodara. It was all over local feeds, a politician's nephew was involved. By noon, every single article and tweet about it was just gone. Poof. My friend at a paper said they got a call from a "higher up" and the editor pulled it. No follow up, no names published. It's creepy how clean they can wipe it.
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tyler_hunt7214d ago
By noon, every single article and tweet was just gone" is the scariest part. It shows they have a whole system for this, not just one phone call. That's not just covering something up, it's full-on digital erasure.
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Heard a guy at a tea stall talk about a building collapse in Surat last year. Said the news came on TV once, then never again. His brother drove past the site and saw it was a total mess, but the papers called it a "minor structure failure" with no deaths. Makes you wonder what really happened and who decided we didn't need to know. You ever run into a story that just got a totally different name?
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