As India's elections run from April 19 to June 1, a look at the BJP's vast WhatsApp operations, including using the app to campaign free from public scrutiny
An analysis of thousands of messages reveals how India's ruling party uses the app to campaign free from public scrutiny. — • MANDI, INDIA
Indian political parties BJP and Congress have created and shared AI-crafted political content on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, without explicit disclosures
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Investigation: as Amazon and Netflix back down on daring films, self-censorship pervades the Indian streaming industry due to pressure from Modi's ruling BJP
MUMBAI — Over a three-decade career, the filmmaker Anurag Kashyap often trained a critical eye on his native India as he wove tales … X: @aaschapiro , @gerryshih , @gerryshih , @anujbhuwania , @vakash...
Staffers and allies of India's BJP detail how they crafted posts for a vast network of WhatsApp groups aimed at exploiting the fears of the Hindu majority
MUDBIDRI, India — At first, the WhatsApp messages touted roads paved, schools built, free food distributed to the poor … X: @malavtweets , @digitaldutta , @mparekh , @gerryshih , @digitaldutta , @gerr...
A look at the use of WhatsApp in Indian state Gujarat's elections, as political parties deploy thousands of “digital warriors” to spam the “people's feed”
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Elections in India's Gujarat have become a WhatsApp spam war, as the main political parties push content across thousands of groups to influence voters
10,000 volunteers, 50,000 WhatsApp groups, and the intense fight to “control people's feed” in Gujarat. — • AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT, INDIA Tweets: @restofworld , @samriddhi0809 , @samriddhi0809 , @samrid...
In response to Meta's rebuttal of its XCheck report, The Wire shares a video of a source using a subdomain, DKIM signatures, and more, but experts are skeptical
& many mainstream foreign journalists also questioned The Wire's work. Now, @thewire_in says it's verified the email via- its DKIM signature. https://thewire.in/... Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : ...
The Wire responds, including an alleged recording of an internal Instagram subdomain and DKIM verification, to Meta's statement questioning its XCheck probe
A point-by-point response to Meta's statement questioning The Wire's story on the ease with which the BJP IT Cell head is able to get Instagram to delete posts he reports. Tweets: @thewire_in , @rmnth...
Meta says documentation in The Wire's article alleging Instagram removed posts flagged by a BJP member in India without oversight “appears to be fabricated”
@JeffHorwitz Where to even begin with this story?! X-check has nothing to do with the ability to report posts. The posts in question were surfaced for review by automated systems, not humans. And the ...
Source: Instagram removed 705 posts without moderator oversight flagged by Amit Malviya, who runs Indian nationalist party BJP's IT Cell, as part of XCheck
Seven posts by satirical account @cringearchivist were removed without any verification because the head of the BJP's … Tweets: @aroondeep , @therealnaomib , @jahnavi_sen , @baxiabhishek , @sharadragh...