2023-10-07
If @NarendraModi is allowing Xiaomi to operate in India despite police claiming to have evidence it is fomenting terrorism to destabilise India, is this because Xiaomi gave 10cr to PM CARES? Has it also given electoral bonds to BJP? Transparency needed. https://m.thewire.in/...
Reuters
The Delhi police accuse Xiaomi, Vivo, and others of helping transfer funds illegally to news outlet NewsClick, which is accused of spreading Chinese propaganda
Indian police have formally accused Chinese smartphone makers Xiaomi Corp and Vivo Mobile of helping transfer funds illegally …
2022-10-27
The Wire Editorial: To Our Readers, an Apology and a Promise https://t.co/Oplsy363hE via @thewire_in
The Wire
The Wire apologizes, saying technical evidence should have been independently verified and that it was deceived “by a member of our Meta investigation team”
Last week, The Wire formally retracted its Meta stories after conducting an internal review of the technical source material used … Tweets: @amitmalviya , @thewire_in , @caseynewto...
2022-10-11
Exclusive: If BJP's @AmitMalviya Reports Your Post, Instagram Will Take it Down, No Questions Asked Shocking story by @jahnavi_sen on the kind of power @Meta is giving @BJP4India to unlevel the political playing field. https://thewire.in/... Via @thewire_in
The Wire
Source: Instagram removed 705 posts without oversight in India in September, after being flagged by Amit Malviya, the head of BJP's IT Cell, as part of XCheck
I promised we had a huge folo to our Meta-BJP story yesterday, so here goes! @jahnavi_sen and I bring you new and exciting details of Meta's damaging damage control exercise https://thewire.in/...
@andymstone
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, ...
Exclusive: If BJP's @AmitMalviya Reports Your Post, Instagram Will Take it Down, No Questions Asked Shocking story by @jahnavi_sen on the kind of power @Meta is giving @BJP4India to unlevel the political playing field. https://thewire.in/... Via @thewire_in
@andymstone
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, ...
2022-01-07
This is all part of the hollowing out of Indian democracy. The government erodes liberties from above, while paid termites equipped with fancy tech eat away from below. https://twitter.com/...
The Wire
How Modi's BJP uses an app called Tek Fog, with ShareChat integration, to spread propaganda, target critics on WhatsApp, and hijack Facebook and Twitter trends
Look at the sicko minds behind the #TekFog app, giving paid operatives a list of targets and a menu of offensive keywords to choose in order to maximise the harassment female journalists critical of the Modi regime https://thewire.in/... https://twitter.com/...
The Wire
How Modi's BJP uses an app called Tek Fog, with ShareChat integration, to spread propaganda, target critics on WhatsApp, and hijack Facebook and Twitter trends
2021-11-04
HUGE news out of Washington... This is a slap in the face of Pegasus's Israeli vendor, NSO Group, and its rogue clients, including the Modi government, as well as Tel Aviv—whose export licenses have allowed the violation of human rights on a global scale https://thewire.in/...
The Record
US sanctions four companies, including NSO Group, that sell spyware or hacking tools, adding them to a list of entities engaging in “malicious cyber activities”
The US government has sanctioned today four companies that develop and sell spyware and other hacking tools, the US Department of Commerce announced today.
2021-07-26
Thrust of #PegasusProject validated: Whatsapp CEO @wcatchcart confirms nature of some targeting we saw in leaked database, says 50k-sized list in line with what they saw in 2 wk window. And US court says NSO ‘retained some role’ in operation of Pegasus. https://thewire.in/...
The Guardian