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Tek Fog
Tek Fog is an alleged mobile phone software application supposedly used by the India's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It was first purported by Indian news and opinion website ''The Wire'', who has since suspended, and later formally retracted the story, due to cooked up stories and alleged discrepancies in the material used. ''The Wire'' also issued a formal apology to its readers and asked for a formal donation. The app The supposed purpose of the software is to infiltrate social media platforms and promote favourable viewpoints through misinformation targeting users perceived to be BJP party opponents. Tek Fog was also alleged to have managed a huge database of Indian citizens which included specific data regarding their occupation, religion, age, gender, etc., which was then used to deliver targeted insults and criticism. A key function of the software was allegedly to manipulate trending features on Twitter and Facebook by automatically sharing or retweeting posts, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Software Application
Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. At the lowest programming level, executable code consists of machine language instructions supported by an individual processor—typically a central processing unit (CPU) or a graphics processing unit (GPU). Machine language consists of groups of binary values signifying processor instructions that change the state of the computer from its preceding state. For example, an instruction may change the value stored in a particular storage location in the computer—an effect that is not directly observable to the user. An instruction may also invoke one of many input or output operations, for example displaying some text on a computer screen; causing state changes which should be visible to the user. The processor executes the instructions in the order they are provided, unless it is instruct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BJP IT Cell
Bharatiya Janata Party Information Technology Cell commonly known as 'BJP IT Cell' or 'BJP Social Media Cell' is a department of the party to manage social media campaigns for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). History BJP was the first political party in India to acknowledge and use the power of social media in mobilizing public opinion. The twitter account for BJP leader Narendra Modi (then Chief Minister of Gujarat) was created in 2009. In contrast the twitter account of senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was made in 2015. Organization Amit Malviya is the incharge of BJP IT Cell. Methods BJP orchestrates online campaigns through its social media cell to intimidate perceived government critics. Sadhavi Khosla, a BJP cyber-volunteer in the BJP IT Cell said that the organization disseminated misogyny, Islamophobia and hatred. The network of volunteers of BJP take instructions from BJP IT Cell and two affiliated organisations to troll users who are critical of BJP. Journali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smita Prakash
Asian News International (ANI) is an Indian news agency that offers syndicated multimedia news feed to news-bureaus in India and elsewhere. Established by Prem Prakash in 1971, it was the first agency in India to syndicate video news and , is the biggest television news agency in India. The news agency has been criticized for having served as a propaganda tool for the incumbent central government, distributing materials from a vast network of fake news websites, and misreporting events. History Establishment and early years (1971–2000) Prem had started his career in the field of photography before being employed by Visnews (and Reuters) as a photojournalist, where he went on to cover some of the most significant historical events in post-independence India. A significant figure in the domain of news and documentary film-making in the 1970s, he commanded considerable respect among foreign journalists and film-makers, and were conferred with the MBE. In 1971, Prem establis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arfa Khanum Sherwani
Arfa Khanum Sherwani (born 1 November 1980) is an Indian journalist, and the senior editor of ''The Wire''. She was the only Indian journalist to cover the 2014 Afghan presidential elections. She is an alumna of Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia. She has received the Red Ink Award and the Chameli Devi Jain Award. Biography Arfa Khanum Sherwani was born on 1 November 1980 in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh. She completed her intermediate studies in the city and obtained a B.Sc. degree from the Chaudhary Charan Singh University in Meerut. She received a diploma in journalism from the Aligarh Muslim University and completed her doctoral studies at Jamia Millia Islamia. Arfa started her career in journalism in 2000. She joined '' The Pioneer'' as an intern and later worked with ''The Asian Age'' and then Sahara TV. She joined NDTV as a principal correspondent and news anchor. She worked with Rajya Sabha TV until 2017 and is a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faye D'Souza
Faye D'Souza is an Indian journalist and a television news anchor. She worked as the executive editor of Mirror Now, which is owned by The Times Group. She rose to fame with the show ''The Urban Debate'' on Mirror Now, where she anchored on subjects of corruption, communal violence and independent press. D'Souza has previously worked as an anchor and editorial lead on ''Investor's Guide'' on ET Now a member of the CNBC TV18 newsroom. She has been awarded the RedInk Award for ‘Journalist of the Year’ in 2018. Early life D'Souza was born in Mangalore, Karnataka. She studied journalism at the Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, and holds a bachelor's degree in journalism and English literature and a master's degree in Mass Communication. She completed her post graduate studies from Commits in Bengaluru. Career Career beginnings D'Souza started her journalism career with All India Radio, while she was a student. She then worked as a post graduate journalist at CNBC TV 18 in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sagarika Ghose
Sagarika Ghose (born 8 November 1964) is an Indian journalist, columnist and author. She has been a journalist since 1991 and has worked at ''The Times of India'', ''Outlook'' and ''The Indian Express''. She was a prime time anchor for BBC World on ''Question Time India'' and on the news network CNN-IBN, also being the deputy editor for the latter. Ghose has won several awards in journalism and is the author of two novels, as well as the biography of Indira Gandhi, '' Indira: India's Most Powerful Prime Minister.'' She is currently the consulting editor of ''The Times of India''. In 2022, her biography of former Indian Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was released Education Ghose studied from Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram and received her bachelor's degree in History from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. A recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship in 1987, she has a Bachelor's in Modern History from Magdalen College and an M.Phil. from St Antony's College, Oxford. Career Sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swati Chaturvedi
Swati Chaturvedi is an Indian journalist. She has worked for various Indian newspapers and channels, like ''The Statesman'', ''The Indian Express'', ''Hindustan Times'', ''The Tribune'', NDTV, DailyO, ''The Wire,'' ''Gulf News'' and ''Deccan Herald''. She has also published two books; her first book is ''Daddy's Girl''; her second book is titled ''I am a Troll: Inside the Secret World of the BJP's Digital Army''. Swati Chaturvedi won the Prize for Courage, in 2018, awarded by Reporters Without Borders for journalism in a hostile environment. See also *Barkha Dutt References External links Swati Chaturvediat NDTV New Delhi Television Ltd is an Indian news media company focusing on broadcast and digital news publication. The company is considered to be a legacy brand that pioneered independent news broadcasting in India, and is credited for launching t ... Indian editors Indian columnists Living people Indian women editors Indian women columnists Indian investigati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nidhi Razdan
Nidhi Razdan (born 11 April 1977) is an Indian journalist and television personality. She was the executive editor of NDTV and the primary anchor of NDTV 24x7 news debate show ''Left, Right & Centre'', and the weekly debate show ''The Big Fight''. Since 1999, Razdan has covered a variety of news events and hosted a series of shows, often reporting live from the news scene. She has reported extensively on a wide range of key political, economic, and social stories from the Indian subcontinent, covering the Indian politics and foreign affairs closely, including the India-US nuclear deal, general elections, several state elections, all major news developments and elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the earthquakes in Gujarat in 2001 and Kashmir in 2005. Razdan has been the diplomatic correspondent of NDTV 24x7, which is an English language television channel that carries news and current affairs in India, owned by New Delhi Television Ltd network. She has done documentaries from Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barkha Dutt
Barkha Dutt is an Indian television journalist and author. She has been a reporter and news anchor at NDTV and Tiranga TV. She currently runs her own digital news channel called 'MoJo Story'. She is also an opinion columnist with ''The Hindustan Times'' and ''The Washington Post''. Dutt was part of NDTV's team for 21 years, until she left the channel in January 2017. She emerged as a prominent figure after her frontline war reporting on the Kargil Conflict between India and Pakistan in 1999. Dutt has won many national and international awards, including the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour. Dutt was one of the journalists taped in the Radia tapes controversy. At NDTV, Dutt was the host of the weekly, award-winning talk-show ''We The People'' as well as the daily prime-time show ''The Buck Stops Here.'' Personal life She was born in New Delhi to S. P. Dutt, an Air India official, and Prabha Dutt, who was a well-known journalist with the ''Hindustan Times'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rana Ayyub
Rana Ayyub is an Indian journalist and opinion columnist with ''The Washington Post''. She is author of the investigative book '' Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up''. Background and family Rana Ayyub was born in Mumbai, India. Her father Mohammad Ayyub Waqif, was a writer with ''Blitz,'' a Mumbai-based magazine, and an important member of the progressive writers movement. The city witnessed riots in 1992–93, during which time the family moved to the Muslim-majority suburb of Deonar, which is where Rana largely grew up. Ayyub is a practising Muslim. Career Rana's worked for ''Tehelka'' (''lit.'' "commotion/uproar"), a Delhi-based investigative and political news magazine. Rana has previously been critical of the BJP in general and Narendra Modi. By her own account, a report done by Rana Ayyub was instrumental in sending Amit Shah, a close associate of Narendra Modi, to jail for several months in 2010. At ''Tehelka,'' Rana worked as an investigative journalist and her bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ShareChat
ShareChat is an Indian social media platform, owned by Bangalore-based Mohalla Tech Pvt Ltd. It was founded by Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh and Farid Ahsan, and incorporated on 8 January 2015. ShareChat has over 400 million monthly active users across 15 Indian languages. Mohalla Tech is the parent company of applications such as ShareChat, Moj and Moj Lite+ (TakaTak). It acquired MX TakaTak, one of the largest homegrown short video platforms in February 2022. The current valuation of the company is $5 billion. Foundation and history ShareChat's holding company, Mohalla Tech Pvt Ltd, was incorporated in January 2015 by three IIT Kanpur graduates— Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh and Farid Ahsan. The company is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, and presently employs over 2500 people. Initially, ShareChat primarily worked as a content sharing platform, without any scope of users generating their own content. In April 2016, ShareChat enabled user-generated con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google Sheets
Google Sheets is a spreadsheet program included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google. The service also includes: Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Drawings, Google Forms, Google Sites and Google Keep. Google Sheets is available as a web application, mobile app for: Android, iOS, Microsoft Windows, BlackBerry OS and as a desktop application on Google's ChromeOS. The app is compatible with Microsoft Excel file formats. The app allows users to create and edit files online while collaborating with other users in real-time. Edits are tracked by a user with a revision history presenting changes. An editor's position is highlighted with an editor-specific color and cursor and a permissions system regulates what users can do. Updates have introduced features using machine learning, including "Explore", offering answers based on natural language questions in a spreadsheet. History Google Sheets originated from XL2Web, a web-based spreadsheet appl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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