OpIndia is notorious for publishing toxic content like this. Now the Guardian is having to appeal to them to end their public attacks on a respected Guardian reporter.
If you work in advertising, today would be a good day to exclude Opindia.com from your online ads:
If you work in advertising, today would be a good day to exclude Opindia.com from your online ads:
https://twitter.com/GuardianComms/status/1581031509431324672
"Spreading hatred against Muslims within the majority community is what was happening there... I quit. I did not become a journalist to spread hatred" - ex OpIndia employee
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Given OpIndia's toxic track record, it's no surprise that so many brands have already taken action to exclude them from their advertising. More background here: newslaundry.com/2020/06/23/opi…
"The top hashtags... included #Leicester, #HindusUnderAttack and #HindusUnderattackinUK... The BBC examined the top 30 URLs that were shared using these hashtags... 11 were links to articles written by news website OpIndia.com" bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-tre…
"One of the OpIndia articles cited [a] researcher from the Henry Jackson Society, who told GB News that several Hindu families had left Leicester due to threats of violence from Muslims... Police... were unaware of any reports of families having to leave" bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-tre…
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The BBC found that *half* of all tweets about the disturbances in Leicester were from accounts geolocated in India - along with "classic signs" of "inauthentic activity" - i.e. "that individuals are deliberately using multiple accounts to push a narrative" bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-tre…
"engagement patterns for the hashtag #HindusUnderAttackinUK strongly suggest the use of coordinated networks and bot accounts with a large proportion simply retweeting, a common sign of network manipulation" isdglobal.org/digital_dispat…
"Online activity was driven by influential accounts, bot-powered networks, and fabricated content... Many of the low-grade accounts in the networks (often used primarily for retweeting content) also contained pro-Russian content" valent-projects.com/news-insights/…
"Iranian State-backed channel Press TV... sent one of their UK-based journalists to Leicester. His reports claimed that a "shroud of terror has descended onto the streets of Leicester" ...and that "British Muslims are fending off Hindu extremist attacks"" isdglobal.org/digital_dispat…
Martin Luther King wrote that "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere... Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly". This is all the more true in an age when hate & misinformation narratives can travel so quickly around the world: africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/L…
Islamophobic narratives pioneered in India are increasingly being aired by divisive media internationally - for example this Daily Mail article promoting the "love jihad" conspiracy theory: archive.ph/j4dxs
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