Explained: What’s ANI vs Wikipedia legal battle all about?

ANI has lodged a lawsuit of Rs 2 crore against US-based non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, for “allowing misleading, negative, and defamatory” edits on their Wikipedia page.
The second paragraph of Wikipedia’s page on ANI says that it has been “accused of having served as a propaganda tool for the incumbent central government, distributing materials from a vast network of fake news websites, and misreporting events on multiple occasions”. The news agency, meanwhile, has alleged that the edit has been done with the “malicious intent of tarnishing” its reputation.
In a hearing of the case early this month, Justice Navin Chawla of the Delhi High Court asked the foundation to disclose information about the editors who made the edit and also remarked that if Wikipedia doesn’t like India, they should not work here.
But does Wikipedia have control over who writes and edits on its pages? Can absolutely anyone write anything? How does it work? Why did Justice Chawla make such a strong statement? Is it likely that Wikipedia will be banned in India? What is happening in the case?
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[@ratanbhattacharjee7233]

The Godi Media knows that BJP Govt wiil ensure through ANI that Wikipedia doesn't have anything against BJP

[@greinum]

Smita wants 2 crores because she wants better and more snacks on her podcast…..

[@yohaankhatao7782]

Wow , ANI seems really upset about this, considering they think its fake.

[@ravindrahemmanur3395]

Thank you.

[@KobayashiMaru-]

All Wikipedia has to do, is show the pod cast of ANI involving Smitha prakash ,Abhijit Iyer mitra , Anand Ranganathan where SMitha prakash clearly indicts ANI by calling ANI as part of Legacy media aka Godimedia

[@AsifKhan-iu2js]

Every Indian knows that ANI is a Godi media works on the Govt behalf

[@ainsyaris2378]

what is Godi ?

[@balachandrang76]

Hope wisdom prevails on the judge unless he is politically biased.

[@curious_one1156]

Soon they will have to sue TH-cam and OpenAI too.

[@balachandrang76]

ANI is a baised agency. HMV for the Jumlas. Everyone knows. People actually trust Wikipedia. Only bhakths watch ANI news.😅
Wikipedia zindabad & ANI moordabad..

[@pranjalahluwalia9115]

re-upload?

[@samarthjain5015]

That was on newslaundry YT channel.

[@IndianTamil-b6e]

Kerala story2 needed

[@nikhilharidas87]

Umm...The bit about defaming ANI and News Laundry making mocking content ....just turned me off....I am looking for news content at the very least pretends to be Impartial. This is what isn't available anymore....everything is either left or right

[@KobayashiMaru-]

Better than fake

[@IndianTamil-b6e]

This kerala media should seeHindus in kerala Kerala then chola pandya Kerala now mini Pakistan

[@Abhinav_Nayana_Sailen]

shut up godian 😂 come up with sources for what you think is going wrong with that state or any other state of India.
For other Indian watchers, these vague comments are nothing but engagement generators for IT cell (you know whose), not saying there is anything wrong with what this dude is asking but you have probably seen this way of bad faith talking on various other media platforms and hence it is better to always ignore such comments unless they properly elaborate what the purpose of their comment is. This Wumao kind must be weeded out from our nation and kept limited to China where they either trivialize our soldier dying on the borders or laugh it out.