The India-Pakistan conflict may have ended militarily. But during & after the fighting, a blitz of info warfare raged online. It's time to understand how this info war took over the internet, with certain countries siding with Pakistan to peddle their full-blown propaganda

🧵 From fake news to doctored videos to deepfakes & recycled war porn, the India-Pakistan conflict exposed the scale of global propaganda—from China to Turkey to Bangladesh—as Pakistan & its allies launched a full-blown disinfo blitz against India in view of #OperationSindoor

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Pro-MAGA accounts on X recently falsely accused Indians of running a merchandise buying scam on Meta & duping Americans.

But this claim lacks teeth & basis. Our investigation reveals it is far from the truth. This scam empire is actually run not by Indians but Bangladeshis!

🧵 Recently, an X user falsely accused Indians of running a vast network of state pride-themed Meta (Facebook) groups, using recycled content to boost engagement for Meta’s creator fund, while exploiting Americans emotionally & selling them low-quality/ undelivered products.

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USAID has been in news for its notorious operations of funding Ops. globally. While its role of regime change operations is being discussed, full picture remains unclear when it comes to India.

We add nuance to this discourse with what we have reported in the last 4 years.

🧵 From anti-India advocacy groups to U.S. federal commissions, NGOs, terror outfits, and philanthropic networks—USAID's funds flow through all, fuelling multilayered operations to exploit fault lines & destabilize India.

USAID is one common focal point of all!

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What does it take to whitewash terrorism on an institutional level?

Entire state machinery, transnational media collab & a new geopolitical buzzword for 2025 to shift focus from real issues like terrorism; cloaking it under HR advocacy

Making of ‘TRANSNATIONAL REPRESSION’

🧵 For over 15 months, we’ve been monitoring narratives being peddled against India. >170 articles, Op-Eds, reports from Western media, churned out literature in large nos. to generate max. impact. All used a common trope- ‘transnational repression’ (TNR).

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Outgoing POTUS Joe Biden honored George Soros with the Presidential Medal of Freedom

@elonmusk has exposed Soros as a Democrat tool with influence ops in the US & UK, funding radical groups.

But, Soros has also been fueling conflicts in many Asian countries including India

🧵 In his recent tweets, @elonmusk highlighted an important aspect of the influence ops of Soros in the UK & the US. But Soros hasn’t been targeting just that part of the world. Many other countries, especially in South Asia, have been victims of his regime change ops!

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British politicians covered up Pakistani grooming gangs targeting underage white girls, fearing 'Islamophobia.' Now diluting truth by calling them ‘Asian gangs’. Vote-bank politics in convenience over justice

Similar is the case with the Justin Trudeau-led govt. in Canada

🧵 The Rotherham scandal shook Britain: 1,400+ children exploited over 16 years while authorities looked away. @elonmusk recently highlighted this devastating case, calling for a full national inquiry. The government's reluctance to investigate official failures is telling.

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A sudden rise in Terror attacks in #Kashmir by 'new age' terror fronts calling themselves 'resistance'!

Who are they, who is behind them, and above all, who are the new masters of narrative?

#August5 #Article370

A THREAD: The valley is seeing an attempt at revival of terrorism. Suddenly ‘new fronts’ with English names have surfaced - People's Anti-Fascist Front (#PAFF); The Resistance Front (#TRF); United Liberation Front Kashmir (#ULFK); & Kashmir Tigers etc.,

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The US Embassy in India has taken a keen interest in ‘fighting disinformation’ and ‘hate speech’, conducting multiple workshops through its consulates and mission. However, the manner and the individuals engaged, raise some questions.

A thread: Starting about 2019, the US Embassy in India and its Consulates – all started workshops on “counter disinformation” across India - Kolkata, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Mumbai.

But what kind of #Disinformation? And who conducted these workshops?

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How ‘Western’ powers are using the #Khalistani trope to create conflict in India, and why?

A story in Five Acts

Brief thread.

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Centre for Information Resilience (CIR), a UK Deep-State project publishes a ‘disinformation’ report– ‘exposing’ a handful of anonymous handles– recycling the #Khalistani narrative, seeding tropes of Khalistani ‘activists’ & ‘transnational repression’.

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EXPOSÉ: Millions of $ funded to impact #IndianElection results!

Just concluded #loksabhaelections24 reported massive interference from China to Israel.

However, the most significant remains obscure – The Western interference: From EU to the US!

A thread: These elections saw the most intrusive foreign reporting – overwhelmingly negative and obviously brazen. Tropes from the ‘Western media’ heavily laced with hyper adjectives and double standards forcing a meta narrative into the bloodstream of internet.

Like they were in a competitive mud-slinging tournament.

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Sudden spike in news about ‘bad’ Indian medicine – from US, Gambia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka - and emergence of Indian origin American ‘hero’ #DineshThakur.

Story of biggest assault on #IndianPharma, aided and abetted by Indian media, particularly, The Wire.

A Thread: In Dec 2023 Livemint claimed that the US recalled ‘bad’ Indian meds. It was a headline spin – Indian med was a fraction of US meds. But why the negative spin on Indian pharma? We were interested and did what we do. Dig.

What we found was beyond shocking!

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An #ISIS module was busted by the NIA, headed by Saquib Nachan. Many would not know that Saquib goes back to the 1990s with Human rights ‘activist’ Bhajan Bhinder.

A trans-national - trans-generational strategy of bleeding India by thousand cuts.

A Thread: 🧵 The two ‘activists’ - #ISIS fame Saquib Nachan & #OFMI fame Bhajan started together in 1992, & have been working on a two-pronged Hybrid-Warfare against India – spanning three continents and four decades.

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In a long English word salad, a quarter dozen WaPo journalists in a hit piece have tried painting us somewhere between RW & RAW (no pun intended).

To do this, they recycled 2-year-old Pakistani propaganda, making it ‘ANONYMOUS.’

We dissect the ‘exposé’.

A Thread: First, the claim of our association with Govt agencies/ RAW. The report is essentially a recycle of previous reports published by Pakistani ISPR/ Info-war machinery. The report is periodically recycled, last by known fake news peddler CJ Werleman.

Lazy Journalism!

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In a barely disguised revenge piece, WaPo has accused us of targeting ‘activists’ & ‘philanthropists’.

We will reply to each line in the report shortly.

Here is a question: why do WaPo’s ‘activists’ fold their shops, edit their past & disappear AFTER we expose?

🧵 First, philanthropist #Soros

We exposed him NOT because he called for regime change in India, but because many anti-India fronts/players popped up by the Muslim Brotherhood/ Islamist Jamaat were getting funding/patronage from Soros -from #EqualityLabs to #HfHR to #DoTo.

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What a morning to wake up to!

Today we woke up to a surprise showdown with WaPo! Turned out, that Goliath is attempting a hit-piece on DisInfolab. Goliath is WaPo. Hitman is Verma, Pranshu Verma!

Trigger: Lab has exposed both Verma and WaPo, twice.

A thread: Verma did a shoddy fan piece on #RaqibNaik and #HindutvaWatch (HW) but made NO attempt to verify the facts that:

a. HW’s backend was being managed from Pakistan.
b. Its FB page was being run from Turkey (now hidden)

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Financial Times (FT) quoting anonymous sources reported that US thwarted an attack by India on Khalistani loudmouth Gurpatwant Singh Pannun who as per Indian media’s anonymous sources is a US Asset

But there's more to mix of Pannun/ #Khalistan-Role of UK establishment & BBC.

🧵 Incidentally, the FT story about ‘Saving Pannun Ryan’ comes AFTER Canadian claim regarding Nijjar but the incident happened BEFORE that, or so it claimed. The article didn’t clarify why the ‘sources’ leaked it NOW.

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The US newspaper #WashingtonPost (#WaPo) has published a story, ostensibly about online censorship in India.

However, the story has a much more sinister agenda.

A Thread. The story in question: a story replete with multiple ‘insiders’ and ‘anonymous sources’, claims that there is an attempt to throttle free speech by the Indian govt. But there are virtually no facts, except that the number of requests from govt to X has increased.

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A new ‘atrocity literature’ by a US-based 'research' org- 'Hindutva Watch' is in use by media– both Indian & intl to peddle the narrative of fascism in India.

But DID YOU KNOW #HindutvaWatch has a Pakistani hand behind it which has direct links with Pak's ruling party?

Exposé: HW started as a Twitter handle in 2019, & its website also became operational in the same year. It had no fathers until owned by Raqib Hameed Naik in 2023 with the help of WaPo journo Pranshu Verma. Verma didn’t even check the dates claiming it was founded in April 2021!

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In a replica of their shenanigans during US trip of Indian politician Shri Rahul Gandhi, Jamaat fronts have again tried to latch onto his name to seek legitimacy

Earlier it was Jamaat US front–HfHR. This time it's their Europe front-Stitching/Foundation the London Story(sic)

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Shri Gandhi during his Europe tour reportedly attended an event in Brussels on Sep 7.While neither Congress overseas nor other official platform had mentioned, self-styled human rights org, Netherlands-based Foundation London Story(FTLS) claimed it had organized the event
 
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So far, we have exposed how some US based Christian & Islamist lobbyists spun the ethnic conflict in #Manipur as minority persecution, using a new front NAMTA.

But while the front changes, the machinery remains same.

Read until the end to uncover their ultimate objectives:

🧵 Before explaining the larger agenda behind it, it would be helpful to understand:

What the new front NAMTA is, how it was co-opted, and how it is being used to target Indian interests– all in the name of human/ minority/ religious rights.

This will also explain their SOP.

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What're the odds of anti-India Islamists & Extreme right-wing (ERW) Hindus agreeing on something?
As #ManipurViolence was painted communal by FIACONA's Christian ‘activists’ & IAMC's Islamists, some ERWs too played along, knowingly or..

Data-driven🧵on unlikely ‘holy’ alliance: As noted in previous thread, while early discussion on #Manipur_Violence had majority of keywords ‘Tribal’, ‘Kukis’, ‘Meitei’, etc., in no time a group of Manipuri a/cs. Mushroomed– both as #Kukis & #Meiteis– & started fighting each other. Internet was then shut in Manipur.

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