On use of social networking platforms by the Muslim Far Right

Digital jihad

by Razeshta Sethna

Dawn, 2013-12-02

AS militant groups increasingly use social networking platforms to reach out to bigger audiences and shape media coverage of their actions, their drive to create sympathisers remains as relevant to them as their traditional objective to kill or destroy the enemy.

Hardly media shy, the late Pakistan Taliban leader Hakeemullah Mehsud had met

India: Operation Blue Virus Blows The Cover Social Media - how some leaders buy hate or popularity | Cobrapost expose

Cobrapost exposes how social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and others are coming in handy for politicians to artificially boost their popularity, and malign their opponents, with help of IT companies across India which specialize in providing customized online reputation management services, for a fee. About two dozen such companies have been uncovered. There is little social about

India: The Hindutva brigade’s Internet campaign has taken propaganda to new heights of incredulity

Frontline, November 29, 2013

Cyber assault

In Chicago, supporters of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi listen to his address through a videoconference organised by the Overseas Friends of the BJP on November 3. Photo:PTI
Saba Dewan, film-maker. She found it strange to be flooded, on Eid, with cartoons, photographs and posts criticising the sacrifice of goats and other animals. The posts

Who Runs the websites NarendraModi.in, GujaratRiots.com and SanghMarg.org?

source: http://www.truthofgujarat.com/runs-narendra-modis-website/



Who Runs Narendra Modi’s Website?

Pratik Sinha October 15, 2013 | 
Last week we exposed how Narendra Modi runs a website that justifies Gujarat Riots (GujaratRiots.com) thorugh his IT team led by Rajesh Jain, the founder of NitiDigital, and we also exposed how Rajesh Jain is the man behind all the NaMo related cyberspam

India: Armed with sticks knicker walas march thru Gurgaon | RSS propganda chief wants to use social media

From: Indian Express
Now, RSS takes the social media route to reach out


Ravish Tiwari : New Delhi, Mon Oct 14 2013, 08:16 hrs   













RSS workers take part in an event in Gurgaon on Sunday. PTI

 

 Though not in as organised a manner as the Congress or the BJP, the RSS has also decided to use the social media to reach a larger audience.

Its propaganda chief Manmohan

India: on social media or TV, vigilantism rules | Bharat Bhushan

From Outlook Magazine | Oct 21, 2013

opinion
The 10 PM Soliloquies
At political fairgrounds, on social media or TV, vigilantism rules
by Bharat Bhushan

What is common between Ramdev, Anna Hazare, cyber warriors who attack any opinion different from theirs, retired Foreign Service officers and generals fulminating on security issues on television and the TV anchors who egg them on on behalf of

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India: Internet video from Pakistan recycled and used by the Hindutva Right wing in Muzaffanagar, UP

Hindutva site on Facebook hosts a video that sparked the violence in Muzaffarnagar. Independent sources claim that apparently this video of violence in Pakistan in Sialkot in 2010 was recycled and presented as that of recent events in Kawal village near Muzaffarnagar in UP). The original of video on youtube is at: http://youtu.be/76M42nh6nJ0 It seems this fake video have been distributed via