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One nation, one leader and one tweet! Altnews exposes ‘copy-paste’ Sarkar’s propaganda
Fact checking website Altnews.in on Saturday exposed several Indian sportswomen ‘copy pasting’ the same tweet praising the PM for empowering women and tagging union minister Kiren Rijiju
NH Web Desk
Updated: 28 Oct 2019, 8:51 AM
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“Top sportswomen made to push identical tweets to laud PM Modi on Women empowerment” read a headline on altnews.in
The Modi Government’s penchant for synchronised tweeting to build up a buzz on micro blogging site Twitter in favour of PM Modi and his programmes is by now well-known. The text of the tweet is forwarded to a set of people, film stars, sportspersons with directions to tweet the text around the same time.
Tweets with the hashtag #DemonetisationSuccess went viral in 2017 August following the text of the tweet shared by BJP’s social media army, ministers and MPs to create an artificial buzz on social media.
On Diwali eve on Saturday, an identical message was tweeted by international sportswomen ranging from boxer Mary Kom to badminton star P.V. Sindhu and Saina Nehwal. While Sindhu added a ‘ Sir’ after the PM’s name, wrestler Pooja Dhanda missed deleting the word ‘text’ from the direction she had received. She deleted the tweet after she was trolled on Twitter.
The identical ‘text’ of the tweet read: “I thank @narendramodi for his initiative to honour and empower women this Diwali. Acknowledgement motivates us to work harder and make India proud. #bharatkilaxmi”.
This is not the first time Altnews. It has exposed in the past several such orchestrated buzz created by the Government in favour of the Prime Minister. #MyNewIndia hashtag trended with identical tweets on India as a manufacturing hub, International Yoga Day, Beej Se Bazaar Tak programme.
When the Prime Minister visited the United States earlier, identical tweets with the hashtag #ModiTrumpCard had begun to trend on Twitter. Similarly tweets with the hashtag #DBTImpact and #GSTForCommonMan had gone viral with identical tweets.
On each of these occasions, fact checkers AltNews managed to produce the Google Document which had apparently been shared with the celebrities with the direction to tweet the text given.
While the Government is entitled to engage in propaganda, it is not clear whether the celebrities were under some compulsion to tweet the same text at the same time. The alacrity with which they have been obliging the Government indicates that they apprehend a backlash if they fail to help the Government build up the propaganda.
Twitter reacted predictably and the Twitterati made fun of the flexible sportswomen.
Mahesh Langa
✔@LangaMahesh
One nation, one election, one leader, one Tweet also :) https://twitter.com/bainjal/status/1188101263835054080 …
Swati Chaturvedi
✔@bainjal
Who did this? Great sports women think like a cult?
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8:24 PM - Oct 26, 2019
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Rupa Subramanya
✔@rupasubramanya
Credit where credit is due for going against the grain. @Pvsindhu1 not only removes “text” but also adds a “sir”.
https://twitter.com/free_thinker/status/1188092809422598145 …Pratik Sinha
✔@free_thinker
Such senior sports-persons copy-pasting stuff which they've been asked to tweet by the PMO. The person at the top forgot to remove the "Text: " bit which was to be stripped off before tweeting rest of the text.
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8:01 PM - Oct 26, 2019 · Mumbai, India
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Saket Gokhale@SaketGokhale
Following up on this amazing finding by @free_thinker , I've filed an RTI seeking info from the govt. about whether this particular tweet (with the EXACT SAME WORDS) glorifying the PMO was given to all the sportspersons by the Ministry itself.
Should be fun to see the answer :) https://twitter.com/free_thinker/status/1188092809422598145 …
Pratik Sinha
✔@free_thinker
Such senior sports-persons copy-pasting stuff which they've been asked to tweet by the PMO. The person at the top forgot to remove the "Text: " bit which was to be stripped off before tweeting rest of the text.
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10:44 AM - Oct 27, 2019
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Viji Venkatesh@vijivenkatesh
So funny how poor Pooja forgot to delete the word ‘text’ from her Tweet https://twitter.com/clyde_crasto/status/1188112903422898176 …
Clyde Crasto
✔@Clyde_Crasto
#Diwali Offer#Tweet one get many free#HappyDiwali
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8:41 AM - Oct 27, 2019 · Thane, India
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Akash Banerjee
✔@TheDeshBhakt
Well payed @free_thinker
Thanks for letting us know sportspersons with maximum flexibility
https://twitter.com/free_thinker/status/1188092809422598145 …Pratik Sinha
✔@free_thinker
Such senior sports-persons copy-pasting stuff which they've been asked to tweet by the PMO. The person at the top forgot to remove the "Text: " bit which was to be stripped off before tweeting rest of the text.
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8:11 PM - Oct 26, 2019
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Salil Tripathi سلیل تریپاٹھی સલિલ ત્રિપાઠી
✔@saliltripathi
Great sportswomen think alike: (via @free_thinker)
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7:56 PM - Oct 26, 2019
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The latest expose of altnews. In can be read here:
https://www.altnews.in/top-sportswomen-made-to-tweet-identical-text-to-laud-pm-modi/
Following up on this amazing finding by @free_thinker
“I've filed an RTI seeking info from the govt. about whether this particular tweet (with the EXACT SAME WORDS) glorifying the PMO was given to all the sportspersons by the Ministry itself.”
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