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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was the first political party in India to acknowledge and use the power of social media in mobilising public opinion. The Twitter account for senior BJP leader and Prime Minister Narendra Modi (then Chief Minister of Gujarat) was created in 2009, while senior Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi waited until 2015 to come to that platform.
Amit Malviya is an Indian politician serving as the national convener of the IT cell of the Bharatiya Janata Party. [1] [2] Numerous posts by Malviya have been found to have been spreading disinformation. [3] In December 2020, Twitter flagged a tweet by Malviya about the farmers' protest as 'manipulated media'. [4] Hailing from Prayagraj, Uttar ...
The IT Cell was BJP's newest organisational unit, and Bora was its first head. The IT Cell had 3 roles: (a) automate the Party organisation; (b) attract IT professionals to the Party; and (c) advise the Party on IT Policy issues. With that mandate, Bora set up cells in 22 states across the country.
The BJP and its supporters aren’t the only ones using social media platforms to gain votes this election; others have also harnessed AI and WhatsApp to engage voters.
Fake news and similar false information (misinformation or disinformation [1]) is fostered and spread across India through word of mouth, traditional media and more recently through digital forms of communication such as edited videos, websites, blogs, memes, unverified advertisements and social media propagated rumours.
Two protesters sent a defamation notice to Malviya which demanded an apology and ₹ 1 crore (equivalent to ₹ 1.2 crore or US$140,000 in 2023) in damages from the BJP IT cell chief. [160] The notice stated that the addressees, "have not only played a fraud on the general public but have also attempted to bring disrepute to the protesters ...
The 2G spectrum case was a political controversy in which politicians and private officials of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition government India were allegedly involved in [1] selling or allotting 122 2G spectrum licenses on conditions that provided an advantage to specific telecom operators.
The last image we have of Patrick Cagey is of his first moments as a free man. He has just walked out of a 30-day drug treatment center in Georgetown, Kentucky, dressed in gym clothes and carrying a Nike duffel bag. The moment reminds his father of Patrick’s graduation from college, and he takes a picture of his son with his cell phone.