@Lyric_Jain’s left-leaning, purported anti-disinfo platform pushed disinfo by claiming evidence of racism against Indian students in Ukraine is Russian propaganda and several handles are “right-wing.” Amazon Alexa Fund in part bankrolls @LogicallyAI. Amazon’s CEO owns WaPo.
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"In countries like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh with semi-authoritarian governments, you need to be friends with the government to do business. There's a lot of hate speech in India and these people are not being de-platformed as quickly as they should.”
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The article quotes extensively from a founder of Alt News, a platform w top two officials who themselves have pushed disinformation followed by redactions in the past. Pratik Sinha pitches hard for using “fact-checkers” as arbiters of the truth.
More worryingly, @Lyric_Jain offers a doxxing service. For those who are willing to pay and are perhaps politically aligned, the service is designed to reveal the identities of anonymous handles. Claiming Covid is a bioweapon is apparently enough to invite an “investigation.”
The firm’s three core markets are the US, UK and India. Besides Amazon, funding has been secured from Vitruvian Partners, XTX and Mercia Equity Finance. It’s a case of a for-profit, foreign-funded information control and doxxing corporation operating in India with impunity.
Their job, much like the US’ Disinformation Governance Board, is meant to “safeguard” democracy. With the help of AI, they aim to control the flow of content that @LogicallyAI and its clients deem as “disinfo campaigns.” Where’s the transparency of their client list and process?
@Lyric_Jain has no track record in India worth speaking of, yet his India operation has got verified. Their native hirelings ran a smear campaign against the Ministry of External Affairs suggesting they’ve been involved in spreading disinfo. This should and will stop. @MEAIndia.
As expected, @LogicallyIN follows the usual regime change agents. All on the list below have proven antecedents of writing and amplifying blatantly false stories and tweets. One even claimed just recently that India was in the middle of a “civil war.”
This is information warfare
This is information warfare
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