Congress IT cell head shares a deceptive video of PM Modi, Twitter doesn’t mark it ‘manipulated media’

As meeting elections in Assam draw nearer, Congress IT cell resorted to spreading manipulated and deceptive content material. Recently, in its try and mount an assault towards the BJP, Congress IT Cell head Rohan Gupta shared a cropped video from PM Modi’s rally in Assam on Twitter.
PM Modi within the video had known as out Congress method of protecting the poor poor and exploiting them for electoral positive aspects. However, the snippet shared by Gupta was fastidiously cropped to offer an impression that PM Modi was advocating the exploitation of the poor for votes.
No feedback ! pic.twitter.com/qOiUgJA9Sy— Rohan Gupta (@rohanrgupta) March 21, 2021
Gupta conveniently edited out the half through which PM Modi elaborated on the way it was the Congress modus operandi of preying on the poor and making false guarantees to them to win their votes.
Here’s the complete video the place in PM Modi slammed Congress for fooling poor for gaining votes:
SPREADING LIES IS THE 50 years Congress Formula to Stay in Power LIKE DONE IN ABOVE VIDEO- WATCH WHAT PM @narendramodi ACTUALLY SAID- Keep the Poor Poor & LURE them for Votes with FALSE PROMISES that is Cong method #AssamAssemblyPolls #AssamWithHimantaBiswa #BJPOnceMoreInAssam pic.twitter.com/trYFXkmos1— Rosy (@rose_k01) March 22, 2021
“Congress has a habit of making false promises in their manifestos. Show dreams to poor, lie to them, make them fight each other and rule them, this has been the Congress formula of staying in power at the centre,” PM Modi says as he elaborates how Congress has consciously saved the poor within the nation poor and have deceitfully sought votes of their identify.
In essence, Gupta shared a cropped video of PM Modi through which he was exposing the longstanding Congress method of duping the poor by making assurances and guarantees that had been by no means fulfilled.
It can be solely anticipated that the Congress social gathering and its stooges within the media fraternity would rush within the defence of the grand outdated social gathering, downplaying the deceptive video as a meme posted for leisure functions. The snippet shared by the Congress IT Cell head is just not a meme, not by a protracted shot. It was a misleading video, shared with the precise function of displaying PM Modi and the BJP authorities in a nasty gentle.
Twitter’s left bias and its penchant for repeatedly interfering within the Indian politics
It can be value noting that social media behemoth Twitter, which has championed the reason for combating misinformation on its platform by labelling suspicious tweets as ‘manipulated content’, didn’t trouble to publish any such label for the tweet through which Rohan Gupta shared the deceptive video.
It leads one to surprise if Twitter is admittedly neutral in dispensing its deceptive content material label or whether or not such categorisation is simply reserved for the tweets posted by the BJP leaders and never for the opposition politicians who peddle falsehoods and manipulated content material.
In December 2020, BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya shared a video debunking the lies peddled by the Congress leaders. Malviya shared a video in response to a picture shared by Rahul Gandhi whereby he insinuated that the police was beating up an outdated farmer.
However, photos usually don’t reveal the complete story. A full video of the incident from which the picture was cunningly edited out demonstrates an altogether totally different story.
The video reveals that the regulation enforcement official who’s portrayed within the picture as beating up an outdated ‘farmer’ merely swings the baton within the air to scare the protester away. The baton didn’t contact the protester. Yet, a number of Congress leaders and the IT cell bot deceitfully shared the image to color the safety official because the sufferer of police brutality.
Malviya had shared a video to name out this treachery of the Congress leaders. However, his tweet was labelled by Twitter as ‘manipulated media’ whereas no such label was connected to scores of tweets posted by Congress leaders that carried the deceptive image.
Similarly, within the current case the place Congress IT Cell head Rohan Gupta tweeted a cropped out video of PM Modi, the social media big didn’t censor the content material by branding it as “manipulated content”. Instead, it shunned the position of regulating content material and allowed the misleading video on its platform. This is yet one more occasion when Twitter has displayed its penchant to intrude within the Indian elections.
At the center of this interference by Twitter is their leftist bias. For a while now, Twitter has been accused of furthering leftist propaganda. In reality, the tech big is even unabashed about it, with its CEO Jack Dorsey proudly admitting that the workers in his organisation had a left-leaning bias.
Many governments the world over have blamed Twitter for unscrupulously influencing their elections and favouring the leftist events. The Donald Trump regime repeatedly accused Twitter of concentrating on it whereas giving a free go to the democrats.
Something related is underway in India the place leftists are allowed to hawk lies and deceptive content material, whereas makes an attempt are made to muzzle those that don’t conform to their worldview.
The Indian authorities should take pressing discover of those developments and take preventive measures to curb these interferences or else it received’t be too lengthy earlier than Twitter and different social media platforms begin utilizing superior technological instruments at their disposal and overtly manipulate public opinion as was witnessed throughout the American Presidential elections.
Additionally, the federal government must also probe if opposition events in India are conniving with the social media behemoth to affect the upcoming meeting polls.