BJP calls RaGa ‘loser’, reminds him of CA | India News

NEW DELHI: Union legislation minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday dismissed Rahul Gandhi’s protest over allegations that BJP manipulated knowledge with Facebook and WhatsApp because the gripe of a sore loser, whereas BJP’s IT cell chief Amit Malviya mentioned the social media web site had truly taken down 700 pro-right wing pages forward of the 2019 polls.
“Losers who can’t affect folks even in their very own social gathering hold cribbing that your entire world is managed by BJP and RSS,” Prasad mentioned. “You had been caught red-handed in alliance with Cambridge Analytica and Facebook to weaponise knowledge earlier than the elections and now have the gall to query us,” he added.
The minister mentioned entry to data and freedom of expression had been democratised and the Left and Congress now not monopolised the discourse. “It is now not managed by retainers of your loved ones and that’s the reason it hurts,” Prasad mentioned. He questioned Rahul’s silence over the latest violence in Bengaluru and mentioned, “Haven’t but heard your condemnation of the Bengaluru riots. Where did your braveness disappear?”

The social gathering pushed ‘#CongressFacebookAlliance” on Twitter urging “it must be uncovered.” “Remember assembly Alexander Nix, then CEO of Cambridge Analytica, the disgraced agency, which was engaged by the Congress for manipulating Facebook’s knowledge in an effort to assist Congress sway voters within the run as much as 2019?” Malviya tweeted and added, “You had been dumped is a unique matter!” Sources mentioned authorities has recieved complaints that in April pages supporting Right-wing causes with over 150 million likes had been deleted, whereas pretend information busts finished by fact-checking web sites are sometimes unreliable.

Page homeowners don’t have any say after posts are penalised and subjected to automated mails with no optimistic outcomes. Admins and editors get demoted to moderator and generally are eliminated altogether and even regular posts get breach of group pointers warning.
Malviya shared a video of Sonia Gandhi’s Ramlila floor speech live-stream on Facebook and claimed that it was incendiary.