A close relationship with @KapilMishra_IND, a massive reach on social media and backing by several inflammatory individuals on the far right keep the hate machine going.
@KapilMishra_IND Why is it that #YatiNarsinghanand is left free to spread hatred? What explains the tolerance of the police to their open, continuous provocation of violence against a whole community? | wrote @alishan_jafri and @Apoorvanand__ in April last year.
@KapilMishra_IND@alishan_jafri@Apoorvanand__ In August last year, after the police allegedly refused to in file an FIR on complaints lodged against communal speeches made by far right leaders Yati Narsinghanand and Suraj Pal Amu, the Delhi court even asked for an action taken report. | @IsmatAraa
@KapilMishra_IND@alishan_jafri@Apoorvanand__@IsmatAraa In September, UP police reportedly lodged three FIRs against Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati - not for hate speech, but for making derogatory remarks against Hindu women and female politicians.
"Pegasus and TekFog are not related except that our assumption is that the same cast of bad characters have deployed both.
But they represent very different ends of the subversion spectrum." | @svaradarajan
@svaradarajan "Pegasus represents an attempt at passive surveillance, where the govt surreptitiously hacks into smartphones and installs spyware in order to listen to their conversations, in order to record what they're saying or even activate phone cameras..."
@svaradarajan "...and this is a means of gathering information, intelligence, in advance...it's passive gaming of the public sphere. TekFog represents a more active gaming, where the person deploying it, we have no doubt the footprints lead to the ruling party..."
We created a list with all the Twitter accounts that the source claimed to directly control, as well as all the accounts that were following or being followed by these accounts.
@KapilMishra_IND Additionally, accounts that tweeted the targeted hashtags were also added to the list, resulting in a set of some 102,000 Twitter accounts.
Around 40,500 accounts were filtered that demonstrated high activity levels while trending hashtags.
Tek Fog appears to have been used particularly effectively against women journalists active on social media whose work or posts run counter to the BJP's official narrative.
@AjoyAshirwad In the last few elections, the BJP managed to consolidate the most backward classes – also the largest chunk of the electorate, believed to be more than 30% of the total number of voters – in its favour by mounting a campaign against the dominant Yadavs. thewire.in/politics/obc-n…
@AjoyAshirwad However, "By placing a Thakur leader Adityanath at the helm of affairs, BJP re-imposed its perception of an upper caste-driven party among the backward communities," @manoj_jogi21 told @AjoyAshirwad.
The Uttarakhand Police on Thursday made the first arrest in the Dharma Sansad hate speech case, nabbing Waseem Rizvi who is now known as Jitendra Narayan Tyagi from Roorkee. thewire.in/communalism/ha…
Police also issued notices to two other key accused, Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati and Sadhvi Annapurna, for appearance before it.
All the three are named along with others in the FIRs lodged in connection with the case.
In a video of Tyagi’s arrest, Narsinghanand can be seen threatening the police and asking why Tyagi is being arrested. “Tum sab maroge (All of you will die),” he is heard saying, according to NDTV.
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