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For the past decade we @cjpindia have been analysing, dissecting #Hate as sensation. Click Bait TRP journalism May not written books on it but are peers in #hatewatch @rajuparulekar @sohitmishra99 @nit_set @svaradarajan
cjp.org.in/the-cost-of-cl…
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Cost of Clicks: how thumbnails encourage misleading & hate news consumptionFrom “Ab Hoga Khel” 2 “Kuch Bada Hone Wala Hai”: d quest 4 engagement prioritises sensationalism by using ‘!’ & ‘?’, leading 2 rise in misleading news & toxic narratives in viewers' minds @splcenter
3/at the cost of fact, truth and reality. Surprised?
4/Phrases like “100 Ghanto Main… Encounter Ke Baad, Force Ne Ghera Pura Bahraich! Bhage Musalman! Bhayankar Action Shuru” dominated their narratives... hve polluted content on YouTube @YouTube
5/Further inflammatory headlines, such as “Bahraich Hinsa par Yogi ka tagda aylaan, sunte hi kamp uthe ‘Musalman’!”, served to criminalize a particular community, reinforcing harmful Islamic stereotypes and framing the narrative as a government versus Muslim conflict

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Aug 11, 2020
Its been a strange sort fo journey, principled and fraught. We have always raised the issue of the minority within the minority be it women or the Pandits in the Valley. For this there was shunning from one camp and a scathing othering from the other #KPBetrayed #PanditsBetrayed
2/Its the rational space that has been lost. During our rigorous campaign 4 Prevention of Communal Violence Bill 2004-2014 we argued tht it was needed in d Valley, in all distsof the Country @ACLU @PUCLindia
3/So that the khakhi shirts and their armed friend in law enforcement could be kept in check just as the majority among the minority allowed dissent. I recall one Public lecture at the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation and when I argued for the Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley,
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My dear friend KalpanaKannabiran writes how the Fight to Free Safoorra Zargar is part of a deeper fight, for India's soul that has been corroded by evil and hatred and worse, a mob mentality that has no respect for due process and the Indian Constitution. #SafooraZaragar #safoora
Brave young lawyers battle a hostile environment as truth has no value & bullying ultimate currency. Kalpana writes with feminist empathy,legal acumen.Others in @HuffPostIndia,@thewire_in hve told the tale of the patient anguish of the family.scroll.in/article/964348… @cjpindia
When will India speak up? asks Kalpana. Its a case of personal liberty. Its a case of conscience of the courts. Of judicial freedom. Of reading the law right. Of fixing democracy when attempts are made to silence dissent. A must must read ...@naukarshah @Asad_Ashraf88
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