Thread by @GorwayGlobal

@samjawed65 @sanjayuvacha i have never heard of British Herald. Who TF are they?

@samjawed65 @sanjayuvacha Let's understand this better. British Herald (BH) is a a web portal
claims to be "a world leader in online news and information delivery". It is owned by Herald Media Network Limited. It works via Reuters, it says. Who are Herald Media? U ask. Read on. britishherald.com

@samjawed65 @sanjayuvacha Herald Media is a company incorporated on 4 April 2018. @CompaniesHouse tells you that it's Nature of business (with SIC codes) is:
63120 - Web portals
63910 - News agency activities
SIC stands for Standard Industrial Classification of economic activity.

@samjawed65 @sanjayuvacha @CompaniesHouse Its Directors are:
Ansif Ashraf, 35, Indian, appointed at incorporation
Shameela Jabeen, 35, British appoointed 21 Jun 2019
Adnan Niroukh, 47, British, appointed 21 Jun 2019
KOLIYAD SHAMSUDDEEN, Ahamed Shamseer, 33, Indian, appointed 11 October 2018.
see:
beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/112892…

@samjawed65 @sanjayuvacha @CompaniesHouse According to its first abbreviated accounts made up to 30 April 2019 and filed on 2 Jun 2019: net assets of £17,209, made up almost entirely of cash in bank of 16,785. It made a loss of 6,166.

@samjawed65 @sanjayuvacha @CompaniesHouse British Herald did indeed run a readers choice for world's most powerful leader: Modi pipped Putin to win by a whisker with a 1% lead. No idea about the number of people who visited the website and actually voted. A panel of expert judges (un named) whittled down a field of 25.

@samjawed65 @sanjayuvacha @CompaniesHouse The website further claims that voting required verification thru a mobile OTP system and at the height of the voting 3 million hits in a week crashed the website! But the website provides no data on the actual number who voted and their geographic dsitribution.

@samjawed65 @sanjayuvacha @CompaniesHouse Finally, Herald Media Network's registered address 156 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge SW3 1HW, is shared by a small business known as Al Noor Pharmacy.

@samjawed65 @sanjayuvacha @CompaniesHouse My conclusion is that this competition was a clever ploy by this enterprising start up to direct traffic to its website and thus convince advertisers to sign up. What better way to get millions of hits than to use a phoney internet competition using #PMModi's name.

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