Overnight ‘Messiah’ Sonu Sood came under the radar for black marketing of COVID-specific drug. While the matter is under investigation (by Hon'ble BOM HC), we have some other behind-the-curtain findings.
This is going to be Three parts long thread.
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PR1. SM star Sood’s Twitter followership jumped by whooping 84times in May’20 (7K to 622K), by now he has 7.9Mn, adding 1.2Mn in just May’21 month i.e. avg 41K per day which is, for a perspective, almost double than that of NaMo, RaGa, BigB & Virat's numbers. 2/n
In a couple of months his stardom mushroomed, Sood drifted in oblivion of a larger-than-life Messiah image, 'leveling' himself to the national institution, backed up by his political friends, a section of media, and Bollywood.
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But obviously, something doesn't add up with numbers. On further investigation, we found that 90-95% of his newly add-up followers are ‘just-created' (new) handlers. We performed this experiment several times & captured one of the live demonstrations (check video). 4/n
PR2. Very peculiar pattern of the handlers Sood picks to respond in Messiah style- most of them are either recently created or have become active after 1 to 11 yrs of gap, all tweets related to Sonu, "request calls" found so ‘scripted' specifically on which Sood replies. 5/n
PR3. Worth to note that Sonu Sood, closely associated with restauranter Neeti Goel in many of his ‘flagship programs’, is business partnering with BotBakery, a digital marketing co. specialized in social media 'solutions' for business growth.
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Book release to political tadka, when Sonu's PR team is busy in making Messiah image, BOM HC whipped him in contrast for the same reason, he was 'appealing' ppl not to. (pic)
But hang on, this is just a starter.
The main course is– (B) Money🐝Bee [funding]
To be cont..
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Part-2 Money🐝Bee
Sood's series of crowdfunding campaigns: legal or illegal !?. 👇
FACT CHECK:
@IndianExpress published an article citing a 'fact check' for the fact which was never said!
Entire left cabal jumped on the news, in a very coordinated manner, misleading everyone.
Let's check it one by one.
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To start with, it was clear to everyone that said $21mn funds for India were CANCELLED by DOGE. i.e. it was funnelled but halted before it could released or received by anyone.
So, the headline "did not go to" itself is blatantly wrong by all means.
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This one line doesn't stop here but carries a hidden agenda and fake narrative crafting that "it was a big misunderstanding that USAID funds India to influence elections". Vicious!
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It looks like there is a big tussle going on between Fantasy Gaming and Opinion Trading (OT). There are links to the involvement of USAID, Ford Foundation etc in influencing policy makers against the OT.
Unmissable Thread🧵
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This is a relatively new subject at large so understand the basics first.
Fantasy Gaming 🏏 : apps like Dream11, My11Circle etc. which let users create virtual teams (like IPL). If chosen players do well, you win real money!
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Opinion Trading 📊: This is something new & rising platform like Probo. Here, users predict outcomes of real-world events like elections, matches, stock etc. Right prediction = earn money. Its like a stock market for opinions.
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The newly formed @DOGE cancelled $21M funding for NGO CEPPS for a program 'voter turnout in India'.
CEPPS website is defunct now.
Was it the first attempt at electoral interference in India by USAID? The answer is - NO.
IMPORTANT THREAD🧵
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USAID program "Elections and Political Processes", to "Promote legitimate contestation for ideas and political power through democratic political processes that reflect the will of the people".
Gimmicks! The real agenda is influencing the elections.
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In 2013, USAID pledged half a million dollars for India under the same category.
Funding Agency - Deptt of State
Managing agency - USAID
Implementing Parter - Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening (CEPPS).
In May'24 US State Deptt hosted an event bringing 22 young rappers, singers, DJs etc across the world, including India, aiming to promote "art as activism" in their home countries.
Do you know who was invited from India and Why?
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. @MikeBenzCyber , who is on a spree of exposing USAID and State Deptt for their funding flood to establish 'assets', just posted about a program organised by US State Deptt where they invited young artists for a two weeks workshop in May'24.
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Deepa Unnikrishnan (Dee MC) was invited from India. The rapper then had a moderate 96K followers on Insta, 66K subs on YT.
I wondered then what made her profile so special to be invited by US St Deptt?
I went through her public profiles and it seems I've an answer.
Its been one year of pran-pratishtha of Ram Mandir and what has been achieved after spending a whopping Rs 1800 crores on a temple instead of 15 hospitals of 200 beds capacity?🤷♂️
Let's take a deep dive.
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In 2024, Ayodhya overtook Taj Mahal and became the UP's top visiting place with 13 crores of domestic visitors and 3100 international, leaving behind Agra with 12 cr visitors.