Propaganda Tools
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BJP supporters have their own app to hijack Twitter trends and manipulate WhatsApp
A probe by ‘The Wire’ reveals that an app called Tek Fog lets users spread propaganda by automating pushing hashtags, content and retweets.
Samanth Subramanian, qz.com
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How China is using social media propaganda to whitewash the repression of the Uyghurs
Thousands of videos of members of the minority group denying abuses are showing up on Twitter and YouTube.
Jeff Kao, ProPublica, Raymond Zhong, The New York Times, Paul Mozur, The New York Times & Aaron Krolik, The New York Times
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Propaganda game: India’s top sportswomen tweet identical message lauding Modi for ‘empowering women’
Some of them failed to remove the word “Text:” from the message that had been provided to them to tweet.
AltNews.in
Trending
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When an emperor came calling on a newly independent India to learn from its early successes
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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Kotak firm’s Rs 60 crore donation to BJP coincided with crucial RBI decisions on Kotak Mahindra Bank
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Bharti group’s Rs 150 crore bond donation to BJP coincided with Modi government’s telecom U-turn
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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Propaganda game: India’s top sportswomen tweet identical message lauding Modi for ‘empowering women’
Some of them failed to remove the word “Text:” from the message that had been provided to them to tweet.
AltNews.in
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Those beautiful Soviet fairy-tale books many of us were enchanted by? They were meant for propaganda
A diehard fan of the lavishly illustrated books for children published by Soviet presses discovers what they were really meant for.
Faisal Mahmud
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North Korea’s fiction factory churns out a large number of novels and stories. Who reads them?
It shouldn’t, of course, be interpreted as a realistic depiction of actual conditions within the country.
Meredith Shaw, The Conversation
Video
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Watch: PTI posts video accusing male ANI reporter of assaulting and abusing its woman journalist
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Watch: Footballers give their jackets to young player escorts amidst heavy rain in New York City
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Caught on camera: Supermarket floor collapses, shopper falls through it
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‘Look at my wonderful costume’: Actor Anne Hathaway reacts to scenes from some of her popular movies
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Watch: Chef makes life-sized pencil and sharpener entirely from chocolate
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PMO orders ministries: Insert favourable opinion in media, get independent experts to back policies
The PMO and Cabinet Secretariat have asked ministries to prepare plans for a media blitzkrieg to accompany all proposed government policies and schemes.
Nitin Sethi
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‘Sound of a dog barking’: History reveals the significance of this North Korean insult to Trump
The Korean peninsula has a lengthy history of exchanging insults, often by comparing opponents to a beast or an animal.
John P DiMoia, The Conversation
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How Woodrow Wilson’s war-time propaganda machine changed American journalism
An executive order in 1917 created what's been called “the nation's first ministry of information”. The media is still feeling its impact.
Christopher B. Daly, The Conversation
The Reel
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‘Inspector Rishi’ review: A superbly crafted battle between fact and fable
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‘Crew’ review: A sexy, funny and honest airline heist movie
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