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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Fact-checking five days of Narendra Modi’s speeches: A catalogue of lies
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Banana republic in the making?: A South Asian perspective on India from Kathmandu
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Karnataka forms SIT to probe ‘obscene videos’ case allegedly involving JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna
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Uttarakhand restricts sale of land for agriculture as locals protest tourism infrastructure boom
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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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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Video: Listen to this acapella version of Shankar Mahadevan’s ‘Breathless’ by four singers
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Watch: Argentinian woman is crowned Miss Universe Buenos Aires at 60
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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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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Aditi Rao Hydari on playing diverse characters: ‘I want the audience to take me home with them’
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The story of India’s unique ‘Milk Revolution’ is going to the Cannes Film Festival
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The story behind the ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ title track: ‘Just write very simple poetry’
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‘Juna Furniture’ review: A simplistic crusade against the neglect of senior citizens
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‘Late Night with the Devil’ review: A deft satire on the price of success