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The extent to which #Facebook India is embedding itself into the administrative & business fabric of India ought to concern us, since the BJP is totally sanguine about it. An overview of what might be just a handful of associations. The rest of the thread provides sources... Image
Facebook's $5.7B investment in Jio Platforms is their gamble to leverage Indian consumers' mobile transactions to monetize their WhatsApp purchase. It doesn't hurt that they obtain unique "access" across India's governments through the Jio parent..
economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/…
#FacebookIndia dreamt up a "Thumbstoppers" initiative to create mobile first ads, into which they co-opted several creative/ad agencies (Wunderman Thompson, Ogilvy, Leo Burnett, McCann and Mullen Lintas)...
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They have at least 8 Indian partners who engage in fact-checking (Boom, Vishvas News, AFP India, Fact Crescendo, Factly, Newsmobile Fact Checker, The Quint and India Today Fact Check)...
tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internet/…
Facebook has licensing partnerships with T-Series Music, Zee Music Company and Yash Raj Films, to allow FB users to include their tracks in users' posts and videos on FB & Instagram...
deccanchronicle.com/business/in-ot…
Facebook followed up with a similar global licensing partnership with Saregama in June 2020...
financialexpress.com/brandwagon/sar…
Facebook India aimed to "connect" with at least 25000 entrepreneurs by 2018 end in Odisha. Some more data collection: "Facebook will prepare a database... in which they will take email ids and mobile numbers of entrepreneurs in all the workshops."...
business-standard.com/article/compan…
Facebook India even tied up with CBSE for "curriculum and related training" in Augmented Reality, Digital Safety & Online Well-Being and introduce Instagram Toolkit for Teens. What would they do with the identity data they collected from participants?...
cbseacademic.nic.in/fb/facebookfor…
Facebook partnered with Election Commission for "voter registration" in Oct 2016 in UP, Punjab, Goa, Manipur & Uttarakhand. No one worried about FB collecting data of Indians who'd register through this - the initiative was extended nation-wide in 2017...
yourstory.com/2016/10/facebo…
They work with 11 state govts on "WhatsApp helplines". In the name of communications training, it connected with Union Health Ministry, state units of National Health Mission & 9 State Govts...
techcrunch.com/2020/04/20/fac…
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative made a significant investment in BYJU's, their first in Asia, in Sep 2016.
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Sunday nights ought to be quiet, but a storm raged across Desi Politics Twitter. Prompted by this @IndiaToday poll.

Voting patterns suggest that there was a concerted attack for a period btwn 10PM-1:30AM IST by people voting for Modi, prompting #BotsJanataParty to trend...
.@IndiaToday had already been mocked mercilessly for a sycophantic poll about the BJP Govt's handling of #COVID19. True to @rahulkanwal's craven form on TV, the poll provided no option to vote the handling as terrible, which it has been in reality, or even just bad...
Back to the "best next PM" poll... at 10PM IST, 77,306 votes had been cast, split evenly between Rahul Gandhi and Modi.

Three & a half hours later, nearly 3,85,000 votes were in, and Modi was at 78%...
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India's Health Ministry has gone bonkers. Officially. No wonder #Nonsense_Modi, #NonsenseSambitPatra and the ilk are trending.

In today's briefing, they discussed a Delhi serological survey that tests for presence of relevant antibodies in people...
Nearly 23% of those surveyed were found to have the anti-bodies. If extrapolated & NCT Delhi's population is 2 Crore, this implies 46 Lakh are infected!

Officially confirmed case count is 1 Lakh 23 Thousand!

Yet the slide boldly says "ONLY 22.86% affected"...
No one asked, and officials themselves did not address, why the study results haven't led to large scale resignations of bureaucrats/ministers in Delhi/the Centre...

Neither was the scarier question of implications for rest of India. 23% of India's population is 30 Crore...
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Chaube wants us to "see" his Modi reportage over time. Presumably he thinks it's "balanced". He knows no one is going to endure weeks & months of his "reporting" to judge "balance" re Modi.

I am jobless, so I took on a slightly different challenge...
I searched for references to Modi in his tweets in the last one year, and looked at the adjectives/verbs he uses to characterize Modi and Modi's actions. Routine sentiment analysis.

I stopped at 1 year because I am not THAT jobless.

Surprise!...
I challenge @bhupendrachaube to find 1 tweet over 1 year, in which he uses "Modi", that is critical of Modi or his actions.

Not govt, BJP, minister or partyworker. Modi.

[Saying Modi looks overworked won't count, OK?]

After all, Modi is human (or is he not?). Errs sometimes...
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