Topic: BJP IT cell
From ‘I had idli’ to political megaphone, how tiny Twitter punches above its weight in India
Twitter has far less reach than WhatsApp or even Facebook, so why do political parties think it’s so important?
BJP turns focus on UP IT cell, lays out strategy to boost social media presence for polls
The BJP is in the process of enrolling 1,63,000 IT coordinators and members for its social media units to be set up across the Uttar Pradesh.
Introspection — ‘New Year resolution’ for political parties & Modi’s call for facts
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‘Manipulated media’ — Twitter flags BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya’s farmer protest tweet
Malviya had claimed Rahul Gandhi’s tweet showing a cane-wielding policeman charging an old farmer was ‘propaganda’, but fact-checkers have shown it was real.
Justice for SSR campaign is now a free-for-all abuse circus. BJP IT cell has been overtaken
Behind the campaign to get ‘justice’ for Sushant Singh Rajput is a troll army that has replaced middle-class Indians who were grieving the loss of a young Bollywood actor.
First Sushma Swaraj, now Subramanian Swamy. BJP IT cell is cannibalising its own
BJP MP Subramanian Swamy has demanded the party sack various anonymous IT cell members, including their chief Amit Malviya.
Locker room boys to IT cell men: India’s rape culture grows without shame or consequences
If Delhi school boys on Instagram privately plan to rape underage girls, then men from IT cells of political parties publicly threaten women on Twitter and Facebook.
Indians are fighting against coronavirus and BJP IT cell is fighting against Indians
Amit Shah had once said BJP workers have the power to make anything go viral, even fake news. The IT cell is proving just that during a global pandemic.
BJP vs AAP memes: Have Delhi elections been reduced to a battle of IT cells?
The campaigning for Delhi assembly election seems to have become a meme fest between the IT cells of the BJP and AAP.
Injured infants in images viral on social media are not victims of Citizenship Act protests
Some social media users, including a member of BJP’s IT Cell, shared images of wounded children claiming they were injured during the Citizenship Act protests.
Twitter has an India-born CEO Parag Agrawal. In Pakistan, it has caused a burn
We look forward to overseas Pakistanis cooking on wood, explaining gas shortage in Pakistan. These are inflation CEOs. Unmatchable against Google, Twitter CEOs.
Bezos, Branson & Musk — Are billionaires popularising space travel or just on an ego trip?
Jeff Bezos will travel to the edge of space in his New Shepard aircraft — more than a week after billionaire Richard Branson defeated him in a fast developing space race.