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Rohan Venkat Profile picture
@RohanV
Apr 29, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Facebook's moderation bias towards the ruling party in India is well documented.

So this is not surprising.

wsj.com/articles/faceb…
From @ShoaibDaniyal, last year:

Why the allegations about Facebook favouring the BJP are so significant for Indian politics

scroll.in/article/970544…
Facebook planned to remove fake accounts in India – until it realized a BJP politician was involved theguardian.com/technology/202…
"Facebook’s top public-policy executive in the country, Ankhi Das, opposed applying the hate-speech rules to Mr. Singh and at least three other Hindu nationalist individuals and groups flagged internally for promoting or participating in violence." wsj.com/articles/faceb…
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Facebook Services Are Used to Spread Religious Hatred in India, Internal Documents Show, report @newley and @JeffHorwitz wsj.com/articles/faceb…
In the internal document, called Adversarial Harmful Networks: India Case Study, Facebook researchers wrote that there were groups and pages “replete with inflammatory and misleading anti-Muslim content” on Facebook. nytimes.com/2021/10/23/tec…
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May 16, 2021
Why is Modi's government so prickly about criticism of its vaccine exports? Why has the Centre-controlled Delhi Police arrested people for asking 'Modi, why did you send our children’s vaccines abroad?'

Because it knows this is a powerful critique.

🧵
thehindu.com/news/cities/De…
With its vaccine programme, Modi was taking a bold bet – and walking a tightrope.

It wanted to portray itself as the country that fixed a global problem, vs China, the source of the problem.

Hence a statement like this at the UN in March:
Modi appeared comfortable in his role as guardian of the Indian people, with some in his government seeming to genuinely believe that - because of sero-surveys & the baffling Covid disappearance in Dec-Jan - Indians wouldn't need vaccines (right away). bloombergquint.com/business/india…
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May 14, 2021
1.92 crore ??
No new announcement. This is just the amount that it was anyway going to provide through the 50% GoI channel.
Context: India needs a total of around 200 crore vaccine doses (of which just 17 crore done).

GoI has only committed to procuring for 45+ population, and is now attempting to tout what most countries are doing in full as some sort of gift to states.
Read 4 tweets
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May 13, 2021
So finally, after months of prodding including from the Supreme Court, government puts out its estimates for when there should be enough vaccines *available*, on the production side, for India's adult population.
From a month ago scroll.in/article/992625…
Find it remarkable that we had to wait until now just to get these details officially.
Read 8 tweets
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May 10, 2021
The Centre's affidavit on vaccine pricing literally talks of its "persuasion" (scare quotes and all) of manufacturers on vaccine pricing...
Link: livelaw.in/pdf_upload/cen…
So if I'm reading this right, Centre has decided that vaccines will be allocated to states & private hospitals based on population, decided that states will get 50% of that 50%, and admitted that the Centre gets better prices with bulk orders... and yet isn't buying for 18-44?
Read 5 tweets
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May 5, 2021
So first, @psychia90 and @sharmasupriya reported on this key question:

Where are the 300 tonnes of emergency Covid-19 supplies that have landed in Delhi in last five days?

scroll.in/article/993973…
Then the Centre claimed it had promptly distributed all the supplies, but @psychia90 found that it was only on May 3 (the day the previous story came out, after questions were sent to govt) evening that NITI Aayog held a meeting with state officials scroll.in/latest/994059/…
Also relevant, in the Centre's statement -- some states named as having been told of their allocation had not been informed and aid that had already been distributed had only gone to Centrally run institutions scroll.in/latest/994059/…
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May 5, 2021
There's a... Modi address to the nation this evening?
The Hindu confirms he said this but doesn't say the address is today.

"The address to the nation by the prime minister, Mr. Yediyurappa said, is coming in the light of Supreme Court directions, and that the State is expecting directions." thehindu.com/news/national/…
(What Supreme Court directions?)
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