The GitHub account @sullideals was created on June 13. That same day, now-suspended Twitter account @sullideals shared several pictures of Muslim women. The user's bio carried the link to “Sulli Deals” on GitHub.
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“Sulli Deals” became popular on July 4 when several women on Twitter found their pictures on the app. That same day @sdfrgt4rf bragged about creating the app. He shared screenshots of the app’s backend and source code, proving that he had access.
On July 22 @dankchikitsak associated with one Krunal Patel shifted the blame to a Muslim youth Zaved Alam, claiming he confessed to creating "Sulli Deals". But the alleged confession happened on July 24 (see Telegram chat date). How did he know about a chat from the future?
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The alleged Telegram chat took place between Zaved Alam and a user named @not_sameen. (@dankchikitsak had shared screenshots of the chat on July 25 after speaking about it on July 22 first.)
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The account @not_sameen was an imposter handle. Krunal Patel himself told @AltNews it was run by a man. A Pakistani woman's images were misused by the handle. The same Pakistani woman was earlier "rated" on a YouTube Livestream by Ritesh Jha aka @LiberalDogeReal.
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.@newslaundry had published a piece on Ritesh Jha, a 23-year-old from Bihar.
.@LiberalDogeB (Jha's second Twitter account) had cheered @sdfrgt4rf for creating "Sulli Deals" on July 4. Twenty days later, he blamed Zaved Alam.
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The police can track down the Twitter handles that claimed responsibility (@sullideals, @sdfrgt4rf, @sullideals786), just the way the Mumbai police found the youth who posted a rape threat to Virat Kohli's daughter.
The police could reach out to GoDaddy, the registrar of the aforementioned domains, to find out payment details, including credit card details, to track down those who registered the domain names.
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To find the people behind "Sulli Deal", at this point in time, is only a matter of willingness.
'BJP Music' is a verified channel on YouTube where 'Hindutva singers' hype the BJP, criticise the opposition and indulge in the occasional hate speech.
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Here is Chanchal singing a song targeting the Congress. The lyrics carry threats of violence. She also insinuates that Congress was behind the 'assassination attempt' of PM Modi in Punjab.
For the past few weeks, @AltNews has been working on stories related to hate speech and reaching out to social media platforms to deplatform dangerous individuals. Facebook has been the most unresponsive when it comes to taking action.
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We wrote to @Meta@bipchakr@Sunitapatnaik3 on December 6, 2021 about Bajrang Dal member Harish Ramkali who posts videos of demolishing Mazars. He also regularly posts videos where he accuses Muslims and Christians of running conversion rackets.
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Our email was acknowledged. But we failed to get a response despite numerous follow-up emails. @metaindia did not suspend Harish Ramkali's account.
Yati Narsinghanad disciple Suresh Rajput regularly posts hate speech videos targeting Muslims. @AltNews wrote to @Facebook following which few of his videos were taken down but the platform failed to terminate his profile. His videos gain lakhs and thousands of views.
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“We do progressive reviews and put restrictions on accounts when they violate. When the account meets the threshold to disable, we take final action,” was Facebook's response when questioned about its failure to deplatform Rajput.
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While Facebook did not deem Rajput's account meeting the "threshold" to be disabled, there are videos of him referring to Muslims as "pigs", inciting violence and promoting their economic boycott, and terming Muslim women who protested against CAA as "prostitutes".
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The past few days of tasteless communal reporting by mainstream media on violence against Muslims brings us to a story not being talked about enough - 10 people arrested in Ujjain for allegedly chanting 'Pakistan Zindabad'. NSA invoked against four.
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Videos of a Taziya function held a day before Muharram were reported by the media as 'proof' of the slogans being raised. The videos were picked up from social media and reported at face value. No verification.
The issue blew up after BJP MP leaders led by city chief Vivek Joshi met Ujjain SP and demanded that strict action should be taken against those who raised slogans of “Pakistan". He also lightly threw in "Taliban slogans" because why not?
To give a background - BJP leaders, including Mr Patra, alleged that Congress prepared a 'toolkit' to target BJP. The format of a genuine 6-page AICC research on Central Vista was poorly copied and its letterhead forged...
to create a 4-page 'Congress toolkit'. Now Twitter allows only four pictures to be shared per tweet. So most tweets from yday have shared four out of six pages of the genuine doc and four pages of the forged one.