In the image, Leishemba is seen bowing down with his hands folded in front of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. In Manipur, police have filed a sedition case against an activist (Erendro Leichombam) allegedly for Facebook posts about Sanajaoba Leishemba, a newly-elected Rajya Sabha MP and the titular king of the state. Staying with the Mardras HC, Aroon Deep writes in Medianama about a petition asking for pre-censorship of Social Media and OTT platforms. In the petition, Gunasekaran and Jeeva Sagapthan said Maridhas has not only resorted to the agenda of publicly defaming and spreading fake news against them but has also spoken about their personal lives without any verification or comments from them. If you recall the News 18 Tamil Nadu story from Edition 11, here's a quick update, the channel has taken a YouTuber to court. “A set of rules or defined procedures may take time but is the correct process to go about it in the future,” the person said.Ī Gurgaon court issued summons to Jack Ma after a former employee of UC Web (owned by Alibaba) approached it saying he was terminated for opposing 'censorship' and 'fake news'.Įrnakulum rural police has upped its social media surveillance with the aim of curbing the spread of 'fake news'. This should explain the sub-heading for this sectionĪnother senior govt official told ET that the govt is looking to formalise a process for such bans and the concerned ministry has been asked to frame a law or circular or some form of a regulation for constant scrutiny of the apps operating in India. And this quote from ET is what prompted me write about India breaking the Internet, and not in a good way. More apps were banned (47) and many more are being monitored (~275). Multiple pieces need to fit (or rather not fit) together before we can conclude that there was something strange at work. I should add that by itself, this is not necessarily suspicious. Notice how the number of tweets trends higher to the right side of the chart (lower number of followers). The chart is sorted by number of followers in descending order. Now, instead of sorting the base data for this chart by number of tweets in descending order as I normally do, I decided to take a different approach this time. In all, I got around 16K tweets with ~7200 accounts participating in it. So I decided to pull some tweets using that hashtag on 1st August. One of them used this profile image - Posing Girl Standing on the stairsĪnother used this image from a service called Cupid Knot.īoth of these appear to be stock photos, which is why I've actually linked to them. There were a few other similar tweets between 28th and 31st, but they got even less traction (See search results page on Twitter. While this tweet didn't get any significant traction, the hashtag did indeed trend for a significant amount of time on August 1st (not hard to guess why).
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