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
WhatsApp told Delhi High Court last week that it will be forced to leave India if required to maintain “traceability” for messages as part of 2021's IT rules
why WhatsApp is threatening to shutdown in India Ajay Rag / The Economic Times : ETtech Explainer: WhatsApp's standoff with Centre over end-to-end encryption X: Supriya Shrinate / @SupriyaShrinate : [...
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...
Sources and new documents detail how Facebook execs repeatedly shied away from punishing the BJP or associated accounts in India for hate speech and propaganda
SAN FRANCISCO — Nearly three years ago, Facebook's propaganda hunters uncovered a vast social media influence operation …
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...