Alok Bhatt Profile picture
May 27, 2021 7 tweets 7 min read Read on X
Extremely interesting pattern in the reporting following filing of case by WA against GOI rules. Clearly, English language media seems be lobbying for @Facebook as evident from the way how FB version found space on front page while Govt version has been relegated to back pages
Seems @bipchakr - PR head for @facebook in India - has learnt her lessons very well from the way Cong & AAP hounded Ankhi Das last Sept! Clearly, everything seems to be going well with Cong now!
How many of you remember how one year ago, Cong, AAP and their supporters went all guns blazing after FBs Ankhi Das - it all started with @ShashiTharoor accusing Facebook of favouring BJP- @bipchakr was hired in Mar 20 & seems all of them have decide to smoke a peace pipe
Facebook approaching court against Govt is an extension of that assurance. Also @bipchakr seems to have cajoled support of ELM in their fight against GoI but she forgot that vernacular press in India is still nationalist & they have written against WA n spoken abt GoI version
The way ELM has reported this WhatsApp matter is completely opposite of what has been reported by ELM. Their reporting is quite balanced and in line with the mood of the nation. Unlike English media, ELM has refused to act as lobbyists for big tech- @bipchakr u failed here
Im sure ELM will go running to Govt when they will feel threatened by big tech, and would want govt to fight for them. But for now dollars made over to journos via @bipchakr run PR budget or those plush five star hotel stays and wining-dining session seems to be having an impact
And i shud end this thread with this mint report that seems to have pushed Facebook in doing extra to please Cong and AAP and others! livemint.com/companies/news…

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
 

Keep Current with Alok Bhatt

Alok Bhatt Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @alok_bhatt

Apr 25
Since last year, @AjiHaaan and I have been tracking role of Germany and how it is meddling in Indian affairs. Consider few points and everything is verifiable:

1. Harsh Mander spent close to a year in Germany on the pretext of some study.
2. German State TV has been running propaganda against India and esp Modi govt for long. Infact DW has produced anti Modi documentaries.
3. Germany tried to meddle into Indian affairs several times - be it during farm law agitation or via its utterances on Kashmir when their FM shared stage with Bhutto.
4. And lastly, Dhruv Rathi is in Germany and is spearheading a propaganda against Indian govt. Simply impossible to do all that circular jacking up of video views to push his narrative without some agency support.

Note how this comparison of video views theme/narrative to determine popularity of leaders and journalist began last year and is single most criteria today to push this compromised man. Surely he is working for German agency!
Note how Washington Bureau chief in India was caught promoting a YouTuber based in Germany
Read 10 tweets
Sep 7, 2023
Although Sir VSN wrote his famous book describing India as a wounded civilisation in 1977, but this is what he said in his 1998 interview - listen to each and every word and extrapolate it to our present- what we see today is exactly what he had said here- we r no longer in our religious shell, we are accepting the outer world and even wants to lead it. I wish he had been alive to see it happen today!
He was always unapologetic about 6 Dec 92 - more so than many Indians of his era.
Renaissance doesn’t come when people pretend that past is going on, it comes when people accept that past is over and things have to be understood - in short confronting and accepting the past!

Had he been alive today, VSN would have been one of the first to acknowledge the Renaissance but on our terms!
Read 9 tweets
Aug 7, 2023
Real news story is that even NYT- that came down heavily on Indian Govt post raids on @newsclickin -found Govt investigations by @dir_ed so compelling that they went after investigating the real Neville Singham and are now shamelessly claiming something, India found out in 2021! Image
Another aspect of NYT expose on Neville Singham is the shameless way in which foreign funded activists like @ravishndtv defended @newsclickin then - hear him making fun of investigations - after all he is the beneficiary of same network!
@ravishndtv @newsclickin See for your self how shamelessly @sardesairajdeep @ashutosh83B @paranjoygt and Manini Chatterjee came out defending @newsclickin after raids - many other stooges turned up then at Press club. https://t.co/PbcD2bWIty


Image
Image
Image
Read 11 tweets
Jul 21, 2023
North East, like majority of India, during pre 2014 was most developed region of Ind with peaceful coexistence & best infra in the country. Ppl from NE were celebrated as Indians throughout- all thanks to golden rule of Cong- Nehru, Indira, Rajiv & Sonia and then 2014 happened!
It is other matter that the great Nehru Ji was forced to promulgate The Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers Ordinance 1958 on 22 May 1958- later replaced by the Armed Forces (Assam and Manipur) Special Powers Act, 1958 on 11 September 1958 to contain Naga rebellion!
BTW Nehru ji was in such love with region, that the territorial scope of the act was extended to 7 states of NE- Assam,Manipur,Meghalaya,Nagaland, Tripura,Arunachal Pradesh & Mizoram & "The Armed Forces (Assam & Manipur) Special Powers Act, 1958" became AFSPA, 1958. ❤️ feeling!
Read 16 tweets
Jul 16, 2023
First phase of Kanvad mela is over and as per some estimates almost 4 crores Hindus have already collected Ganga Jal from Haridwar & have left for their respective shivalayas from the time mela started.

Do check this thread for some of the amazing stories from this kanvad mela!

Image
Image
Image
Hinduism is not thriving coz of Ranganathans, Kulshreshthas & Saideepaks; it is thriving coz of crores of Hindus who, pursue faith for the love of it!

Street domination is imp; hence I won’t mind few tonnes of plastic garbage as I know that change will come as well!
To see this is so touching - this Bhole bhakt is carrying his parents as well along with Kanvad…. Faith is his biggest support and strength - such a profound celebration of dharma!
Read 19 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us!

:(