It's like an arms race. With no Winner. Sort of like World War I trench warefare.
Pro-Indian ‘fake’ websites aimed at influencing decision-making in Europe
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#12How can you call this fake website when all they are posting are true facts that are pro-india? Maybe they are Pro-India but they are not fake.
"The website hasn't been updated since 19 November, a few days after EU Disinfo Lab first announced its discovery of the network.
The BBC tried calling the phone number on the Times of Geneva's website, but it has been cut off. Its YouTube channel has been disabled and its Twitter account suspended."
Is this how your regular news outlet would behave in reaction to EU Disinfo Lab announcement?
Re: Pro-Indian ‘fake’ websites aimed at influencing decision-making in Europe
#13How can you call this fake website when all they are posting are true facts that are pro-india? Maybe they are Pro-India but they are not fake.
They are pretending to be official outlets, according to the article.
> EU Disinfo Lab's investigation started by looking at EP Today, a website which claimed to be an online magazine for the European Parliament in Brussels.
> EU Disinfo Lab, which is an independent NGO, traced the servers behind the website to Srivastava Group.
Re: Pro-Indian ‘fake’ websites aimed at influencing decision-making in Europe
#14How can you call this fake website when all they are posting are true facts that are pro-india? Maybe they are Pro-India but they are not fake.
These are sites produced en masse with names that belonged to defunct newspapers or confusingly close to existing ones (“Times of Los Angeles”). Surely that fits the definition of fake.
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#15Though they are pro India, the word fake sounds like they are fake news, when in fact they are just spinning existing news sites with an Indian positivity spin. Let's be honest most major states are doing this
> Let's be honest most major states are doing this Maybe if you exclude most western states/countries - not sure I have noticed a pattern of US media talking it up - quite the contrary - and I have not really gotten the impression that press of UK, Australia, France or Germany is in the business of putting positive spins on domestic matters either.
Oh the UK media definitely does.
Example: Removing the working time limit? Let's ignore that it's going to lead to more overtime even for those who don't want it, it will increase household revenue! Good news everyone!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5156079/brits-post-brexit-over...
It's currently opt out if you want to work more than 48hrs/week, but scrapping that law will make it even better heh
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#17Maybe they are trying to counter the default anti Indian narrative of most western media outlets which sometimes takes an ugly embarrassing form https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29502062
> the default anti Indian narrative
That's ONE negative cartoon, and even that only if you call the author with his stated intentions a liar.
If I scoured Indian media, would I find at least ONE negative cartoon about "the West" or whatever, I wonder? If so, this naturally would justify any volume of attempts to interfere with Indian democracy.
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#18Finally BJP affiliation with fake news & their propaganda is being exposed.
Re: Pro-Indian ‘fake’ websites aimed at influencing decision-making in Europe
#19Maybe they are trying to counter the default anti Indian narrative of most western media outlets which sometimes takes an ugly embarrassing form https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29502062
What "default anti Indian narrative"?
Also, the cartoon you've linked to doesn't seem anti-Indian at all. I get that people complained, but it's a cartoon: quite a gentle one at that.
Re: Pro-Indian ‘fake’ websites aimed at influencing decision-making in Europe
#20Though they are pro India, the word fake sounds like they are fake news, when in fact they are just spinning existing news sites with an Indian positivity spin. Let's be honest most major states are doing this
> the word fake sounds like they are fake news, No. It clearly says "fake websites" which is a fairly accurate description of what they are. > Let's be honest most major states are doing this I'm sure Sweden and Russia (for example) both have active foreign espionage departments but there's a point where the differences in scale and practice become significant and it's no longer meaningful to say "they both do it".
I know you meant it the other way, but arguably the "Swedish viewpoint" is pushed far more in mainstream media than the "Russian viewpoint".