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Controversies• Police complaint against Twitter trolls: On 10 June 2015, Swati filed an FIR, the first-of-its-kind criminal complaint by an Indian journalist, under sections of the Indian Penal Code that deals with stalking, sexual harassment, transmitting obscene material over the Internet, and outraging the modesty of a woman. Her complaint was against a Twitter handle @lutyensinsider, which had over 40,000 followers. The handle systematically targeted Swati for over six months insinuating that she had a sexual relationship with a politician. Her complaint received a swift response and widespread national and international media coverage. Soon, the accused's Twitter handle was suspended by the social media platform, but no arrest was made.

Attacked for calling out Abhijeet Bhattacharya's Tweet: In 2016, Swati called out singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya for his controversial tweet on "love jihad" and said it had the potential to cause riots. In return, the singer hurled a volley of abuses at the journalist. The Twitter brawl was soon followed by vicious trolling of Chaturvedi by several anonymous Twitter handles. Almost a year after the incident when Abhijeet didn't stop tweeting offensive and sexist remarks against other women users, his Twitter account got suspended, but the singer returned to the micro-blogging site with a new handle in 2019.
Abhijeet Bhattacharya abusing Swati Chaturvedi

Tweeted a manipulated image of "sleeping" Amit Shah: In January 2019, Swati tweeted a screenshot of an image of the Indian Home Minister Amit Shah in which she claimed he was ‘sleeping’ during a parliament session. The picture was later found to be manipulated. The screenshot was taken at the moment when Shah was reading some papers on his desk and appeared like he was sleeping.
Swati Chaturvedi's tweet about Amit Shah in 2019

Tweeted a fake picture of Narendra Modi: On 24 August 2019, Swati tweeted a morphed picture of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wearing an Arabic attire. The original image was tweeted by the Ministry of External Affairs on PM Modi’s arrival at Abu Dhabi in which the PM was not wearing any such Arabic attire.
Swati Chaturvedi's tweet with a morphed image of PM Modi
After the Twitter users called her out for tweeting a fake image of PM Modi, the journalist apologised and deleted her tweet.
Swati Chaturvedi apologising for her fake tweet about PM Modi

Abused journalist Rana Ayyub: Chaturvedi, in March 2020, called out her former "ally" and fellow journalist Rana Ayyub for her controversial tweet related to the coronavirus outbreak in the country. She called Rana an ‘opportunist,’ a ‘vile person,’ and a ‘leper journalist,’ which did not go down well with some Twitter users and Ayyub, too, blocked Swati on Twitter.
Swati Chaturvedi lashing out at Rana Ayyub on Twitter

Tweeted a picture of PM Modi and his alleged wife: On 15 December 2020, Swati tweeted an image of PM Modi and others with a woman she claimed was PM Modi’s estranged wife Jashodaben. The fact check reports from various news publications revealed that the woman in the image was Alpa Vankawala, daughter of the late former Gujarat's minister Hemant Chapatwala. Swati received a lot of flak on Twitter for this, and later she took down the tweet.
Swati Chaturvedi's fake tweet of PM Modi and his alleged wife

Accused of plagiarism: In 2021, Swati was accused of plagiarism, which is a grave sin in the journalism industry. Zia Haq, Associate Editor at Hindustan Times, then accused Swati of allegedly plagiarizing a paragraph of his article.
Zia Haq's tweet accusing Swati Chaturvedi of plagiarism

Note: There are many more tweets and comments made by Swati Chaturvedi that have attracted controversy, especially from the right-wing users.

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Zora Stowers

Update: 2024-05-19