Former US official reveals how American organisations intrude in Indian elections
An audio clipping of a Twitter home dialogue not too way back went viral on social media by which a former officer of the United States cyber division revealed how America-funded organisations intrude in Indian elections. Mike Benz, Executive Director of Foundation For Freedom Online, a former US govt official, made these revelations in a Twitter home dialogue hosted by a Twitter cope with named Trash Discourse. Mike Benz outlined how US States Department was funding diverse entities in Indian media to create a narrative in opposition to Narendra Modi all through the 2019 widespread elections.
Benz was Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Communications and Information Technology throughout the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs beneath the US Department of State till January 2021, he specialised in worldwide communications and information experience points.
Mike Benz said at spherical 3 hours quarter-hour inside the home, “When any proxy uses democracy in unified policy establishment, it is used for regime change. For a change in that country’s elected government, principally in order to control various political, media, social, and cultural levels to give more freedom to state departments and intelligence whose influence is limited by state action in that country. I thought of the India thing for a long time. Because I remember very vividly in 2019 when America also was holding conferences about what to do about India and the problem of internet and communications freedom in India because it was leading people to be Modi supporters and Modi was perceived as a populist sort of new non-aligned movement.”
He further said, “The role that India played on the side of the state Department in the national security state during portions of the current war. When you see this right now with the fact Modi is basically non-aligned in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. You have got declarations by the Indian finance minister who has talked about how they are going to continue to buy Russian oil and gas. There is the purchasing of arms and other equipment. India plays a very very important role with respect to America’s foreign policy because of China.”
Former state division employee explains how America has been using state funded organizations to intrude in a Indian elections. #AmericanHypocrisy
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Mike Benz added, “India loses very largely to Modi’s nationalist proclamations sometimes making it an unstable and adversarial piece on the state department chessboard. They want somebody there who is like a Trudeau who is like Angelina Berboc in Germany essentially. She controls the foreign ministry in Germany and she was the one who on day one after being put in her office did this. She is from the Green Party. They are using this pretext to shut down the north stream pipeline on regular grounds over basically climate-type pretext and not having the gas coming through there. She is the perfect photocopy replica of the picture-perfect state of the Western interest.”
Mike Benz moreover said, “I support Western interests but there are dirty tricks. And what they are doing with Modi is dirty tricks. We have lived through three years of high-intensity Russian gates over a hundred thousand dollars are paid for gas. And we have got probably thirty million dollars at least that have flowed from the state departments to do the same thing in India somewhat explicitly. Because this is all done through the global engagement standards and USAID and funding of different pop-ups censorship mercenary groups that we send over there under the guise of fact-checking, digital resilience groups, or media literacy groups. They are censorship mercenaries who put pressure on Indian civil society and communications platforms in order to stop the ability of Modi supporters from accessing other party mines.”
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In the similar home, US-based cyber criminologist Laura Love lauded Indians and notably Hindu nationalists full of life on the internet for early determining that the pandemic was a part of Chinese weapons and propaganda. This Twitter home dialogue was held on third March 2023. The clipping of the home has now gone viral on social media. Mike Benz’s remarks uncovered how the US state division was attempting to destabilise India by affecting the 2019 widespread elections as a result of it funded positive sections of media to run an anti-Modi narrative.
This should not be the first time Mike Benz has talked about American organisations working in opposition to the Modi authorities. In an interview with the Sunday Guardian earlier this yr, he had said that biased components throughout the US abroad protection establishment waged a advertising and marketing marketing campaign in opposition to PM Narendra Modi and the BJP ahead of the 2019 widespread elections in India. He had said that these components throughout the US administration, social media giants, assume tanks and state division officers had been working collectively to paint PM Modi’s electoral success because the outcomes of a “misinformation campaign”.
He had outlined that labelling one factor as ‘misinformation’ overseas is an indication to the social media platforms to impose censorship. he had said- “Misinformation” is a censorship predicate. When the US abroad protection establishment says a abroad nation has a “misinformation crisis,” that might be a cue to US tech firms to work with entities identical to the State Department’s Global Engagement Center or cut-out assume tanks identical to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Lab or counter-misinformation USAID fundees to censor the “misinformation” in that abroad nation.
Mike Benz had added that they censored chat apps like WhatsApp to limit the unfold of Pro-Modi messages.
