Pakistani propaganda handle "South Asia Index" again shares fake news about India.
Qatar security has detained 8 former Navy officials, working on contract at Doha, on espionage charges in Sept'22.
SAI has posted a thread today with all unverified and misleading claims.
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SAI cited "Qatar Media" without naming one that navy officials "may be awarded capital punishment".
DFRAC has performed a fact check & found there is no such news or press release has been published on any account.
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SAI said India didn't "acknowledge" it for "a year".
Both claims are wrong.
The detain happened on 30Aug'22, so can't be "one year".
And then Asianet news in Oct'22 & Dec'22, the Indian officials were in touch with Qatari counterpart & consular access was provided.
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"We attach high priority to the matter", said MEA spox in a media briefing 5 weeks back.
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Now, some info about this handle.
In Jan'23, DFRAC has done detailed profiling of this propaganda handle that often shares fake or misleading news about India, though Pakistan remains in the soft book.
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These are a few samples of Fake News posted by South India Index, compiled by @DFRAC_org .
In a nutshell, the handle doesn't leave any opportunity to malign India's image and feeds misleading materials to some ppl in India & outside who love to exploit situations.
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Even their domain southasiaindex(dot)org is connected to few of "(dot)pk" websites, which is being used by Pakistani websites.
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The headlines of the articles published on their website are good enough to understand on whose behalf South Asia Index works and what is their credibility.
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And if that is not enough, "Rebel attack" and "Indian-administered Kashmir" are the terms that South Asia Index used for the recent Poonch terror attack carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba, where we lost our 5 soldiers.
Do you still want to believe this handle?
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This is not just one handle but this is a Pak agenda-driven network, part of #InformationWarfare and #PsyOp. These handles work in tandem, share misleading or fake news in order to cause political or social chaos, exploit situations against India and build a false narrative.
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Rushikonda Hill Palace is 14x more expensive, + a destroyed hill, yet neither BJP nor Congress or any environmentalists top the guns against Jagan Reddy!
Why?
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The features of the palace are crazy.
- 200 chandeliers @₹15L each
- cosy interior ₹33cr
- imported furniture, spa, jacuzzis
- commodes @ ₹15L each
- landscaping of exotic imported plants & grass
- advanced sound system, humongous home theatre
- multi-hued illumination 2/
The place originally was tourism deptt run resorts with 58 rooms. Reddy converted this lavish 44acre land into residence-cum-camp-office with just 12 rooms and rest are conf halls and chambers.
PM Modi's pursuit of a third term was fraught with challenges, particularly due to well-organized foreign interference. While we are familiar with the 'ecosystem', significant new dimensions and actors have emerged, overlapping to the political dynamics of the United States.
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There was a massive surge in the anti-Modi , anti-govt narrative during Apr-May'24, just before/during GE. These activities were carried out in two separate (but complementary) formats:
(a) organising events, lectures, semi/webinars by certain West orgs or NGOs and then amplified by associated entities, online & social media space;
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(b) publishing critical write-ups OpEd in prominent international publications in a regular manner. Just to feel the amplitude, 175+ articles were published by The Guardian, Washington Post, Bloomberg, NYT, France 24,etc., during April-May 2024)
An attempt was made to influence Indian Election (mis)using AI model by generating fake anti-BJP and Pro-Congress opinions on social media.
OpenAI (famous for ChatGPT) busted 5 such covert operators who were exploiting their AI model.
Don't miss this thread!
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Let me explain it in easy words. AI models allows users to generate comments based on a certain input. One can easily programme it do this is mass level.
But what if an operator misuse it to generate fake opinions & deploy humans or bots to influence on the social media?
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OpenAI busted such 5 operators, whereas 2 were related to Russia, 1 for China, 1 for Iran, and 1 for Gaza conflict and Indian election.
Not a secret anymore that the big pharma lobby is upset of India's vaccine strategy that led to big $$bn loss to them. Since then many attempts have been made to discredit India's efforts.
The latest one is a "research" by Dr Chakrabarti, amplified by ET journo Teena Thacker. 1/
Pfizer (bully guy) & the pharma lobby tried to halt & malign India's efforts by health ministry & ICMR to go ahead with Covishield & Bharat Bio Tech Covaxin.
We are a lucrative market where a few "perks" traditionally translate into huge business. But that didn't happen.
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On 14-May, Dr Sankha Shubhra Chakrabarti (SSC) published a report about adverse events in Covaxin. This report was immediately (or as planned?) picked-up by ET journo Teena Thacker. This sampling was conducted on telephone survey with 1024 individuals, led by Dr SSC+11 team. 3/
₹ 35,30,346 Cr (35 lakh crore): The commutative amount has been transferred directly to the valid beneficiary account (DBT).
Had it been the Congress era, 85% i.e. ₹30 lakh crore would have vanished to corrupt mediators.
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₹30L Cr is an estimated loss based on former PM Rajiv Gandhi's infamous quote. In other words, this is ~60% of India's today's budget. Imagine the level of corruption, that even the PM confessed, unofficial commission, fake ID beneficiaries, duplicities & other means.
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Though DBT was initiated in 2013 (parting MMS govt), it was systematically expanded by the Modi govt.
For the success of DBT, first & foremost need is a bank a/c. Govt launched the massive PM Jan Dhan Yojana, under which 52cr a/c were opened (56% women & 67% in rural/suburb) 3/