Congress get together makes use of faux information t declare Rahul Gandhi extra in style than PM Modi
The Congress get together usually depends on ‘moral victory’ after shedding elections, now they’ve began claiming ‘social media victory’. On thirteenth August, the official Twitter deal with of the get together posted some numbers claiming that the viewership of Rahul Gandhi’s speech in Lok Sabha through the non-confidence movement was rather more than the speech of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
They give numbers for 4 totally different platforms, Sansad TV, YouTube, X (Twitter) and Facebook. Congress claims that the views of Rahul Gandhi’s speech on the 4 platforms had been 3.5 lakh, 26 lakh, 23 thousand and 73 lakh, whereas the corresponding numbers for Narendra Modi’s speech are 2.3 lakh, 6.65 lakh, 22 thousand and 11 thousand.
They each spoke in Parliament
Here’s who the nation heard pic.twitter.com/J0jwlwuDSO
— Congress (@INCIndia) August 13, 2023
However, these numbers are fully faux, and among the numbers don’t even make any sense. They have talked about Sansad TV and YouTube individually, however the truth is that Sansad TV makes use of YouTube solely to dwell stream the proceedings. The web site of Sansad TV simply embeds YouTube movies from their channel, together with dwell streams.
On Sansad TV’s YouTube channel, Rahul Gandhi’s speech has 3.55 lakh views, whereas the speech of PM Narendra Modi has 2.66 lakh views. It is notable that Rahul Gandhi addressed the Lok Sabha on ninth August, whereas the PM’s speech was on tenth night earlier than the no-confidence movement was defeated by voice vote. As Rahul Gandhi’s speech on YouTube for an extended time, it’s pure to have extra views.
The movies of speeches are on the respective YouTube channels of each politicians additionally, and the numbers don’t match the numbers talked about by Congress. On Rahul Gandhi’s YouTube web page, the live-streamed video of his speech has 6.7 lakh views, whereas the live-streamed video of Narendra Modi’s speech on the PM’s web page has over 18 lakh views.
Live stream of Rahul Gandhi’s speech on his YouTube channel
Therefore, evaluating the views of the dwell streams of their speeches on their respective YouTube channels, the views of Narendra Modi’s speech is rather more, virtually 3 times the views of Rahul Gandhi’s speech. The Congress get together is making a very faux declare right here.
It is notable that aside from the dwell stream, Rahul Gandhi’s YouTube channel later uploaded the video individually, and it has 21 lakh views. The video was uploaded after making some edits, and it did get rather more viewership than the dwell stream, maybe as a result of it was closely promoted. But the actual fact is, this may’t be in contrast with views of PM Narendra Modi’s speech on his channel, as that may be a dwell stream, and the PM’s channel has not uploaded the video individually as Rahul Gandhi has achieved. Comparing the dwell streams of each, the PM’s speech has extra views.
Congress claimed 23,000 views for Rahul Gandhi and 22,000 views for Narendra Modi on Twitter however doesn’t point out from which account these numbers have been taken. If we assume that the numbers are from the Twitter accounts of Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi, the claimed numbers don’t match in any respect. The tweet by Rahul Gandhi containing the dwell stream of his speech has 14 lakh views, together with 13.5 lakh reposts (retweets), 511 quotes, 37.7 lakh likes and 201 bookmarks.
Comparison of Twitter dwell streams
For the speech of Narendra Modi posted on the X (Twitter) account of the PM, it has 25 lakh views, 16.3 reposts, 853 quotes, 51.7 likes and 363 bookmarks. Clearly, the numbers for Narendra Modi’s speech are greater than Rahul Gandhi’s speech on Twitter, though the PM’s speech was a day after Rahul Gandhi’s speech. The Congress get together is utilizing faux numbers to say extra recognition for Rahul Gandhi’s speech on the platform.
For Facebook, the Congress get together claimed that Rahul Gandhi’s speech has 73 lakh views, whereas the views of Narendra Modi’s speech is barely 11,000. This is one other blatantly false declare as a result of the views of Narendra Modi’s speech on his official Facebook web page is 64 lakh. On the opposite hand, the views for Rahul Gandhi’s speech on his Facebook web page is round 80 lakh.
Comparison of Facebook dwell streams
Congress get together’s quantity for Rahul Gandhi is much less in all probability as a result of they took the quantity earlier and the video obtained extra views after that. However, the declare that views for Narendra Modi’s speech is 11 thousand on Facebook is totally faux.
It is evident that the Congress get together has used false numbers for views of PM Modi’s speech on Twitter and Facebook, because the precise numbers are rather more than what they’ve claimed. They additionally in contrast fallacious channels to reach a conclusion for YouTube.
Views vs recognition
By utilizing faux numbers, the Congress get together is making an attempt to indicate that Rahul Gandhi is extra in style than PM Mobi amongst viewers of on-line streams. But the actual fact is, speeches on essential events like no confidence movement are watched by a lot of individuals, and it’s by no means a mirrored image of recognition. As Indians together with the youths turn into extra politically conscious, they’ve began to observe parliamentary proceedings on TV and the Internet.
The incontrovertible fact that a lot of individuals watched Rahul Gandhi’s speech doesn’t imply he’s extra in style. It can also be notable that a big part of BJP supporters and right-wing social media customers keenly comply with Rahul Gandhi’s speeches. They do it to counter or fact-check his claims and allegations, and even to catch his quite a few bloopers in order that they will mock him.
It was additionally Rahul Gandhi’s first speech after his reinstatement within the Lok Sabha, due to this fact his speech had the next curiosity issue. On the opposite hand, the left wing believes in residing in echo chambers, and it’s extremely doubtless that the majority of them didn’t watch the PM’s speech.
Nevertheless, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s social media attain is rather more than Rahul Gandhi’s, which has rather more followers on numerous social media platforms.
Even if Rahul Gandhi’s speech in parliament has extra views on-line than PM Modi’s speech, the actual fact stays that the Congress get together’s no-confidence movement was defeated. The opposition MPs had walked out through the PM’s speech, as they knew that placing the movement to vote will imply a humiliation for the newly named I.N.D.I.A. alliance, and selected to desert the movement as a substitute. As a outcome, the movement was defeated by voice vote, and no precise voting was wanted to find out its destiny.
But as at all times, the Congress get together is seeing victory in defeat. If not ethical victory, social media victory this time, even through the use of false numbers.
