A @YouTube video, trending on Twitter this morning, called for Indian journalists - including my friends and colleagues - to be 'hanged to death' for treason. It had half a million views before it was taken down just now. (1/3)
Alongside threats, the video explicitly named @BDUTT @zoo_bear @dhruv_rathee @khanumarfa @TheDeshBhakt @SaketGokhale @RanaAyyub @missanabeem @fayedsouza & websites like @thenewsminute as conspirators; it also implied that the journalists aim to assassinate the video-creator (2/3)
The video claimed to 'prove' that these orgs were conspiring to 'destroy India'. It said said the news sites mentioned in the farmers' protest #toolkit were also endorsed in a thread by @missanabeem, and also formed the DIGIPUB News Foundation in Oct 2020. That's it. (3/3)
... That's all you need to have to call for the death or imprisonment of Indian journalists; for them to be 'hanged to death'. @YouTubeIndia will let 500K people watch, and @TwitterIndia will let the tweets trend as #BigExpose. The banality of evil, 21st century style.
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