For the umpteenth time, a renowned global internet watchdog has exposed India for projecting anti-Pakistan propaganda on the international stage.
This time, Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), a Stanford University organization studying the abuse of the internet, has busted a nefarious Indian online network that was working to defame Pakistan.
In one of its recent reports, SIO claims that on 24 August 2022, Twitter shared 15 datasets of information operations it identified and removed from its platform with researchers at the Twitter Moderation Research Consortium for an independent analysis.
One of the datasets contained 1,198 accounts that tweeted about India and Pakistan. The network was suspended for violating Twitter’s Platform Manipulation and Spam Policy. Twitter claimed that the country of origin of this specific dataset was India.
The network tweeted mostly in English, but also in Hindi and Urdu. The accounts claimed to be of ‘proud Kashmiris’ who claimed to be the relatives of Indian soldiers.
SIO states that the network appreciated Indian military operations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and maligned the militaries of Pakistan and China. It also consistently targeted those who opposed the Indian government.