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 :-)
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For now, we’ll be documenting objectionable speech through a Twitter account. However, we will soon launch a portal that will facilitate documenting all forms of objectionable speech made by public and political personalities as well as social media influencers.
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The need for one such initiative was felt because of the rampant increase in hate speech and organised disinformation in the online as well as the offline world, and the failure of tech platforms to offload objectionable speech from their platforms.
It is unlikely that PM had a teleprompter gaffe. If you look at the WEF version of the recording of his speech, someone in the background says, "Sir aap unse ek baar pooche ki sab jud gaye kya". This portion is not clear in the video live-streamed on PM's YouTube channel.
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After this, the PM questions if he and the interpreter can be heard properly, to which Klaus Schwab responds stating that he can. However, Schwab interrupts the PM's speech to give a brief introduction.
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The PM repeats the whole speech again. The World Economic Forum (WEF) version of the recording can be seen on their YouTube channel. The address starts at 8:37.
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Do listen to this 41 second clip, and I'll try and answer a few questions that were raised by @bhupendrachaube in his conversation with @MichaelKugelman.
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Chaube: I searched Twitter, could not find a handle called Amnesty Forensics Department or Amnesty Forensics Lab.
Yes, because the handle is called @AmnestyTech, and has been around since 2016. [I can give a quick tutorial to folks at India Ahead as to how to use Google.]
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Chaube: How has all of this suddenly appeared?
No, it hasn't suddenly appeared. Amnesty has published previous stories detailing how NSO+Pegasus has been used against human rights defenders. This is a story from 2019.
[Thread] The new IT Minister is trying to mislead the Parliament by suggesting that the only evidence available right now is that the numbers have appeared in a leaked database, and that the phones have not been analysed.
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A peer-reviewed forensic report by @amnesty has shown how phones of certain Indian users who were targeted show clear signs of a Pegasus Malware infection.