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Double Check: Is Betting Legal in India?
As millions of Indian football fans tuned into the UEFA Euros 2020 on online streaming platform Sony LIV, an advertisement from a major tournament sponsor that would usually not be aired – a Hindi ad for online bookmaker Betway – ran routinely...
Double Check: Why Are Marginalized Users Most Affected by "Technical Glitches"?
In the first week of May, activists from various countries complained posts meant to amplify their causes had been removed by Instagram. For some first-timers in India using their social media accounts to help people procure urgent medicines and...
Double Check: Why Does The Most Vaccinated Country Still Have COVID?
In the first week of May, stories about the rising number of cases in Seychelles — one of the world’s most vaccinated countries — started surfacing.
Double Check: What’s Behind the Oxygen Shortage in New Delhi?
India is currently being ravaged by the second-wave of COVID-19. Residents of India’s capital, New Delhi, are struggling to access medicines, hospital beds, ambulances, cremation-grounds and even medical oxygen. It seems inconceivable that the...
Double Check: Are Rising COVID-19 Cases Linked to Vaccine Efficacy?
In early April, 37 doctors from a private hospital in New Delhi tested positive for coronavirus in a span of 10–12 days despite most of them having received both shots of a COVID-19 vaccine. A similar case was reported a few weeks earlier by a New...
Double Check: Who Is Colin The Caterpillar?
On Friday 16, April 2021, I asked a dozen American citizens about the caterpillar-shaped chocolate cake familiar to most, if not all, Britons. Surprisingly — or unsurprisingly, I can’t decide — most of my interviewees didn’t know what on earth I was...
Double Check: Why Are Electronic Voting Machines Taking Detours?
Earlier this month, an Election Commission of India (ECI) sector officer in West Bengal’s Howrah district was suspended for staying the night at the home of a relative — a Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader — while carrying four spare Electronic Voting...
Double Check: Do Amazon Workers Have to Pee in Bottles?
In recent weeks, Amazon — the trillion-dollar company that sells everything from A to Z — has apparently been trying to boost its brand reputation on Twitter. This has entailed the company using questionable accounts to promote claims about...