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For now, we’ll be documenting objectionable speech through a Twitter account. However, we will soon launch a portal that will facilitate documenting all forms of objectionable speech made by public and political personalities as well as social media influencers.
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The need for one such initiative was felt because of the rampant increase in hate speech and organised disinformation in the online as well as the offline world, and the failure of tech platforms to offload objectionable speech from their platforms.
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UnHate is an attempt to seek accountability from all stakeholders who are directly or indirectly responsible for the increase in hate speech, which includes the individuals who are producing hate speech, tech platforms, advertisers, media organisations, and more.
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It is unlikely that PM had a teleprompter gaffe. If you look at the WEF version of the recording of his speech, someone in the background says, "Sir aap unse ek baar pooche ki sab jud gaye kya". This portion is not clear in the video live-streamed on PM's YouTube channel.
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After this, the PM questions if he and the interpreter can be heard properly, to which Klaus Schwab responds stating that he can. However, Schwab interrupts the PM's speech to give a brief introduction.
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The PM repeats the whole speech again. The World Economic Forum (WEF) version of the recording can be seen on their YouTube channel. The address starts at 8:37.
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Do listen to this 41 second clip, and I'll try and answer a few questions that were raised by @bhupendrachaube in his conversation with @MichaelKugelman.
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Chaube: I searched Twitter, could not find a handle called Amnesty Forensics Department or Amnesty Forensics Lab.
Yes, because the handle is called @AmnestyTech, and has been around since 2016. [I can give a quick tutorial to folks at India Ahead as to how to use Google.]
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Chaube: How has all of this suddenly appeared?
No, it hasn't suddenly appeared. Amnesty has published previous stories detailing how NSO+Pegasus has been used against human rights defenders. This is a story from 2019.
[Thread] The new IT Minister is trying to mislead the Parliament by suggesting that the only evidence available right now is that the numbers have appeared in a leaked database, and that the phones have not been analysed.
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A peer-reviewed forensic report by @amnesty has shown how phones of certain Indian users who were targeted show clear signs of a Pegasus Malware infection.
I can't relate to a lot of my fellow country people anymore, and the reason for that is not because we speak a different language, or follow a different culture, or live in a different state. It is because our perceived realities are completely different.
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The politics of this country has divided us in a way which cannot be undone. At this point in time, I see no possibility of ever being friends with these individuals even if we crossed paths in life because their perception of reality is completely different than mine.
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They (the ones I can't relate to) on the other hand seem to have the same opinion about me and many others like me - they think that our reality is warped. I, and many like me, don't like them, and they don't like us. It is a complete breakdown.
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