What a blunder by @bariweiss, comparing a fake NYT article to other head of states actual hate-tweets! While revealing #TwitterFiles5, least she could have checked the writer Karan Singh who is hired for writing anti-modi rhetorics.
The NYT piece is based on politically motivated Farmer protest, fueled by 100s of fake handles from Pak & Canada with their disinformation campaigning.
Ironically to @bariweiss claims, these handles were not just critical if PM Modi but trending “ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide”
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Karan Singh mentioned “experts said”!! Wth ! Who are these experts!? And for how many twitter employees “arrested” for how many years?
Not a single employee for a single minute for that matter.
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Do @bariweiss & @elonmusk even know that NYT has actually hired purposefully the “journos” who can write only about Anti-Modi & anti-Hindu? Good part is they didn’t even pretend to be neutral and their job description. 4/
No surprise that Karan Singh is obviously among those hiring.
My thread of his other fake and brazen disinformations.
The funny part is @bariweiss herself quit NYT as its “not about truth anymore”! Then what was so compelling to quote an obvious hostile NYT article?
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The tussle between Twitter employees & govt of India is not new and even @elonmusk has cited this disobedience and arrogance behaviour by twitter during his buy-no-buy-deal.
How did Mr Musk now approved this blatant disinformed citation in #TwitterFiles5 ?
List of orgs that work against India's image at int'natl level, drive disinformation campaigns and sponsors protest, gatherings, webinars etc. Many of them are connected to Pak.
Ref - these 58 orgs signed a letter to release jailed (UAPA/PSA) Kashmiri 'journos' in Feb22.
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Who were these 'journos'?
1. Asif Sultan, charges - criminal conspiracy, harboring militants, aiding & participating in militancy. 2. Fahad Shah - UAPA, PSA, glorifying terrorism, fake news, inciting public, threat to sovereignty and security
So the twitter’s biggest lie but not-so-secret out in open. “Shadow banning” is officially known as “Visibility Filter (VF)”, enforced strategically against RWs voices, with letting them know, revealed #TwitterFiles2.
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Now twitter is coming up with a feature to let the user know if a/c is limited, then on which policy violations and how to appeal.
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Things may be moving after @elonmusk has taken over, but m still sure that this (VF) scenario is still active for Indian users. Twitter must look into policy enforcement team in India. The accounts are being permanent suspended for merely posting a funny GIF to a mutual.
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Why The Wire sr. journo Arfa Sherwani cropped the sponsors' names in the "invitation" at Umass in her twitter and Facebook posts?
Anyway here are the names -
Indian American Muslim Council
Boston South Asia Coalition
Asian Studies Deptt
Political Science Deptt.
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On Facebook, Umass Boston History Deptt shared this post where sponsor's name can be seen. Arfa could have reshared this post or picture, but instead, a new post was created with cropped picture for reason best known to the sr. journalist.
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By the way, UMass website 'event' doesn't show this event. May be not that important!
This is disinformation that world media fell for, including Indian msm. There is NO official announcement. This “disbanding morality police” is misinterpretation of Iranian AG’s statement. 1/
Iranian protesters are distressed by this news. Some says there is no exclusive Guard Police unit to be disbanded. Its a state run program. If you at all wants to move-on, you would uplift the hijab ban & other regressive laws, not just the monitoring.
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Also the protesters demanded to current regime to step down and reform the laws. Not sure exactly but NYT or CNN was the leading media houses which published this “disbanding” news prematurely, & rest of the world followed.