How do you get a Union Minister to tweet what you want? Well, you go and edit the trending document made by BJP IT cell, and then you control what they tweet. Thread.
Here's the video of this morning when their trending document got automagically updated :-)
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And then you can get a Union Minister to tweet that "working for the middle class is low on the agenda of Modi Govt"
You can get all IT cell coolies to tweet that Modi govt has destroyed all villages in India. Or that Modi Govt has made women a slave of "धुएं"/cooking"
While it might seem like a laughing matter, the purpose here is to demonstrate that a non government entity sitting in BJP's office is controlling what a Union Minister is tweeting.
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For eg, in the past, @PonnaarrBJP tweeted that bringing 'down' approval time "600 to 1800" is an improvement. No one noticed this. Because they didn't know that they were tweeting from an edited document even back then.
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Will let the BJP IT cell figure out where all they have bungled and how often have they tweeted out of edited documents. :-)
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Union Minister @PonnaarrBJP is now busy deleting tweets, but we got screenshots :-)
This is yet another feather in the empire of falsehood that is OpIndia. The claim that @AltNews misled the NGO Vikramshila and that they were unaware of @AltNews's association is completely false.
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Since December 2022, altED incubated by @AltNews has been working on a media and information literacy curriculum for kids aged 12-14. As part of this initiative, we started working at a center managed by Vikramshila about two months ago.
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On May 15, an event was organised as part of which the kids exhibited their learning including how they approach misinformation, deal with confirmation and cognitive bias, how they process news media and much more.
The fact that the hate-filled, lying cult is still seething 72 hours later shows how much the work we do at @AltNews inconveniences them. That's an excellent reason for more people to work on exposing misinformation and hate speech.
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One tiny organisation can do only so much. It is when more people join hands, and work either together or independently, would the impact increase manyfold.
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Start fact-checking in the languages you know, creating videos, creating reels, creating different forms of content. Choose a form of content that you are most comfortable producing while debunking widespread misinformation.
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BJP Karnataka's press release on the issue was equally provocative. Multiple BJP leaders including Union Minister @ShobhaBJP and BJP leader @ArvindLBJP had pushed the false claim.
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The role played by the media and BJP led to rioting in Uttara Kannada.
Post the fact-check by my colleague @AbhishekSay about how mainstream media orgs including @IndiaToday wrongly claimed that the St George's Cross in the Indian Navy's flag was re-introduced during UPA, @ShivAroor put out a clarification, first on Twitter, and later on TV. 1/n
In this televised clarification, @ShivAroor suggested that the fact that he didn't brazen this out is evidence of his fairness and non-partisanship as a journalist. 2/n
The #AltNewsFactCheck was published on Sep 15, 2 weeks after the claim was first televised by @IndiaToday on Aug 30. The reason for the delay was because @AbhishekSay patiently watched broadcasts of multiple news channels to determine who all put out the false claim. 3/n
The claim that @zoo_bear put out an edited video is completely false, and it is a lie propagated by @NupurSharmaBJP. Zubair put an unedited clip of the relevant part of the video where Nupur Sharma uses derogatory/insulting language on live TV. 1/n
Times Now has now changed the status of the video on their YouTube channel to private. However, we downloaded the entire 33-minute video before it could be made private and the relevant clip can be seen in the next tweet. 2/n
In this clip, @navikakumar first suggests that a couplet was sarcasm against Hinduism, and based on an unknown book of the law, claims that panellists cannot refer to the disputed structure as 'fountain', and asks @NupurSharmaBJP to comment on it. 3/n
THREAD: For months now, certain members and sympathisers of Congress have been running propaganda against @AltNews claiming that we're pro-AAP. Till now, we have avoided responding to these allegations because they're so utterly ridiculous. 1/
However, since there's no letting up of this collective targeting, it is necessary to respond. 2/
Firstly, we are not here in service of any political party or ideology, the work we have done over the past five years speaks for itself. 3/