2024-05-18
And for the SIXTH YEAR in a row, India's tops the list of countries with the highest number of internet shutdowns in the world. India ALONE accounted for 41% of internet shutdowns GLOBALLY. This means 2 things: 1. Law & order under Modi is the WORST we've had in years where [image]
TIME
Access Now: 2023 was the worst year for internet shutdowns since monitoring began in 2016, with 283 shutdowns across 39 countries, led by India at 116
Last year, an internet shutdown in the state of Manipur, India, lasted a staggering 212 days when the state government issued 44 consecutive orders …
2023-06-13
SHOCKING: There has been a MAJOR data breach of Modi Govt where personal details of ALL vaccinated Indians including their mobile nos., Aadhaar numbers, Passport numbers, Voter ID, Details of family members etc. have been leaked & are freely available. Some examples 👇 (1/7) https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
India investigates reports of a breach at a portal with the data of 1B+ COVID-19 vaccine recipients; Telegram removes a bot letting users pull individuals' data
2023-06-12
SHOCKING: There has been a MAJOR data breach of Modi Govt where personal details of ALL vaccinated Indians including their mobile nos., Aadhaar numbers, Passport numbers, Voter ID, Details of family members etc. have been leaked & are freely available. Some examples 👇 (1/7) https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
India investigates reports of a breach at a portal with the data of 1B+ COVID-19 vaccine recipients; Telegram removes a bot letting users pull individuals' data
Bloomberg :
2020-10-28
The battle isn't over yet. Ankhi Das was one cog in the large wheel of Facebook that seeks to enable fascists & interfere with democratic processes. BJP won't give up so easily. Facebook needs to be reigned in & brought out of the BJP's orbit. It's essential for our democracy.
TechCrunch
Ankhi Das, Facebook's public policy director for India, South, and Central Asia, leaves after allegations of content moderation interference for India's BJP
2020-10-10
Some of the changes from 20th: - Users to get a timeout when they hit the button to retweet a post from another account. They'll get a prompt to add context or info & QT - On their TLs, users will see only content from accounts they follow and ads. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Financial Times
Twitter announces changes to clamp down on US election misinfo, like blocking retweets of misleading content from candidates and accounts with 100K+ followers
Move is latest escalation of anti-misinformation measures in run-up to presidential vote — Twitter will block retweets and …
2020-08-31
In yet another superb investigation, the @WSJ lays bare the links between Ankhi Das at Facebook India & the BJP. Ankhi Das literally acted as an agent of the BJP & has also openly admitted to her “bias towards Modi”. Excerpts in the images. Great work @JeffHorwitz & @newley! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Internal postings show Ankhi Das, a top Facebook exec in India, supported “strongman” Modi's party before he was elected in 2014 and disparaged its main rival
and never spoke up about blatant election misconduct on the platform. This is FB India, but it matters here, too. https://www.wsj.com/... Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf : Reminder: What...
2020-08-21
Why are you so petrified about a probe into Facebook India, @nishikant_dubey? Why would u want to stall it? Fact is you're trying to hide the abuse of power by your party. If there's no BJP-Facebook collusion, there's no reason to be afraid of a transparent Parliamentary probe. https://twitter.com/...
Reuters
Indian parliamentary panel has summoned Facebook executives on Sept. 2 to question them on regulation of political content on the platform following controversy
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian parliamentary committee will question Facebook (FB.O) executives on how the social media giant …
2020-08-20
Here's a copy of Facebook Ankhi Das' complaint to Delhi Police which she's selectively shared only with BJP's OpIndia. While naming the accused who threatened her, she's also added my tweet to the complaint as “being defamatory”. 🤦♀️ BJP is scared & now trying all tactics. https://twitter.com/...
Committee to Protect Journalists
Ankhi Das, a top Facebook exec in India, filed a criminal complaint against journalist Awesh Tiwari for sharing a WSJ article critical of Das on Facebook
Committee to Protect Journalists :
2020-08-19
Facebook's “partnership” carrot: While FB's Ankhi Das & the public policy team closely work with the BJP & endorse hate speech, the platform has a unique way of trying to prevent any criticism against it even by independent voices. It's called the “partner” model. (1/4)
The New Indian Express
India's main opposition party asks Facebook to investigate favorable treatment of BJP by Facebook's India team, and to replace the team during this probe
i don't think it's good business to alienate the government in power and that's what Facebook has successfully achieved. It's morality a different thing. Das to me is mover powerfu...
2020-06-30
A govt that installs Pegasus on the phones of activists & snoops on them wants to ban Chinese apps for “privacy concerns”. How do you see yourself in the mirror with a straight face, @rsprasad?
India Today
Indian government bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, ShareIt, UC Browser, WeChat, and Clash of Kings, citing national security and maintaining public order
Govt bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok as border tensions simmer in Ladakh — As tensions along the Line of Actual Control …
A govt that installs Pegasus on the phones of activists & snoops on them wants to ban Chinese apps for “privacy concerns”. How do you see yourself in the mirror with a straight face, @rsprasad?
Bloomberg
India's app ban may present a model for other countries from Europe to Southeast Asia that seek to curtail China's access to their residents' data
- Ban shows the increasingly fractured nature of tech industry — Chinese firms may find themselves excluded from key markets Tweets: @brij and @next_china Tweets: Brij Singh / @...