Indian media repeatedly using the same RSS-backed 'Muslim women' for pro-government propaganda

[Abdullah719]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Look who is here again! Though not featured by ANI this year, the same ‘Muslim women’ have made it to the media via a different news agency. Thread 1/n <a href="https://t.co/hmLVfIDakQ">pic.twitter.com/hmLVfIDakQ</a></p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1160760607693516800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Year after year, media outlets led by ANI have featured the same set of women in their story about ‘Muslim women’ sending Rakhi to PM Modi. Here you can see them in 2017 and 2018. 2/n <a href="https://t.co/CWXMywtorN">pic.twitter.com/CWXMywtorN</a></p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1160760623011127296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="tl" dir="ltr">Coincidentally, the same women also surface during Diwali as “Muslim women celebrating Diwali” 3/n <a href="https://t.co/6XqcUkTJv4">pic.twitter.com/6XqcUkTJv4</a></p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1160760639335391232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">That’s not all. When you read news about Muslim women appealing for cow conservation, it turns out to be them once again 4/n <a href="https://t.co/fa6ahcQWYZ">pic.twitter.com/fa6ahcQWYZ</a></p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1160760649292685312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">And when you read about ‘Muslim women’ reciting Hanuman Chalisa, you can be certain that they are talking about the same women. 5/n <a href="https://t.co/Gi3NrzgJ4C">pic.twitter.com/Gi3NrzgJ4C</a></p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1160760662441779200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">‘Muslim women’ supporting Ram Mandir? No points for guessing it is the same women. 6/n <a href="https://t.co/bLuePnDotQ">pic.twitter.com/bLuePnDotQ</a></p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1160760683002245120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Remember those fatwa stories that pop up every now and then targeting Darul Uloom? These ‘Muslim women’ have made it there as well. Read AltNews exposé on how such stories are manufactured. <a href="https://t.co/nzImL4DFAe">https://t.co/nzImL4DFAe</a> 7/n <a href="https://t.co/MFlGxcYQNO">pic.twitter.com/MFlGxcYQNO</a></p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1160760698647040001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">They are also in the news for awards and appointments. In 2016, Nazneen Ansari was selected as one of 100 women achievers by the Ministry of Women & Child Dev. Last year she was appointed as a member of UP Madarsa board. 8/n <a href="https://t.co/ZlwLfcRxZG">pic.twitter.com/ZlwLfcRxZG</a></p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1160760711875833857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So who are these women? With 80+ million Muslim women in India, what is the probability running into the same ones all the time? Yet our media manages to do it. And whatever these women do is published as ‘Muslim women’ did this, ‘Muslim women’ did that.. 9/n <a href="https://t.co/J6MG0Ys11W">pic.twitter.com/J6MG0Ys11W</a></p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1160760722848137217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The golden rule of propaganda is to keep repeating the message. It is very obvious that an attempt is being made to create a narrative about the popularity of PM Modi among Muslim women. 10/n</p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1160760726501363712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When featuring these women, no media outlet has either questioned or disclosed the link of Muslim Mahila Foundation with RSS. Alt News had written about it last year 11/n <a href="https://t.co/ziY9mDlJkB">https://t.co/ziY9mDlJkB</a></p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1160760729017999360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">TheWire had to go an urban village 10km outside Varanasi to locate the women who the media casually runs into each time they do a story about Muslim women. 12/n <a href="https://t.co/4cxyCwRTeL">https://t.co/4cxyCwRTeL</a></p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1160760731249381376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So this is how two RSS-backed Muslim women have been depicted by media outlets as the voice of the community. No questions asked. No disclosures made. Agenda ooncha rahey humara 13/n</p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1160760733606514691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“When asked to bend they crawled...” And dear media, when you are crawling, such stories are very easy to find. 14/14</p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1160760735716298752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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[Asim_khan]

I've noticed alot of 'Muslim female Kashmiri pro indian' twitter accounts with either a couple of twitter followers spreading pro indian propoganda, they always have "country before religion" etc etc, yet they only tweet what other right wing radical Hindutva dirtbags with larger followings have already tweeted, and don't speak too much on local matters.

Of course you can get away with this in a country where you're as likely to be killed courtesy of a viral whatsap video filmed in Pakistan as you are of malnourishment due to a protein poor diet.

 

[Syed1]

This is hilarious )

 

[AdamM97]

BJP has one of the biggest media cells in the world. Just watch any Youtube videos critical of India and see the like-dislike ratio.

 

[Majestic_Inzi]

So who is goebells in the modi govt?

Straight from the nazi textbook

 

[Civil]

And these are the sources we have to trust over Reuters and Washington Post.

 

[slipcatch]

check this one out. lol

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So <a href="https://twitter.com/HuffPostIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HuffPostIndia</a> tracked down the man shown by media as sharing biryani with Doval. Among other revelations it turns out that it was not even real biryani. &#55357;&#56834;&#55357;&#56834; <a href="https://t.co/0WO6wVXMin">https://t.co/0WO6wVXMin</a></p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1160956028999151617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[Abdullah719]

check this one out. lol

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So <a href="https://twitter.com/HuffPostIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HuffPostIndia</a> tracked down the man shown by media as sharing biryani with Doval. Among other revelations it turns out that it was not even real biryani. ���� <a href="https://t.co/0WO6wVXMin">https://t.co/0WO6wVXMin</a></p>— SamSays (@samjawed65) <a href="https://twitter.com/samjawed65/status/1160956028999151617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

And this...

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“I had never seen him (Doval) before in my life. I thought maybe he’s the personal secretary of DGP Sahab,”<a href="https://t.co/GTjHGxqpJd">https://t.co/GTjHGxqpJd</a></p>— Shehla Rashid شہلا رشید (@Shehla_Rashid) <a href="https://twitter.com/Shehla_Rashid/status/1160871599546855424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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[Abdullah719]

All this, but Reuters and BBC are fake news

 

[slipcatch]

All this, but Reuters and BBC are fake news

Indian are weird people.

The extent they go to to spin news and facts in their favor is insane, like you want to appreciate their hard work trying to spin every negative narrative regarding India but, at the end of the day, Indians are lying.

 

[JaDed]

Lol , In this day and age they should and atleast changed the people, BJP as usual being incompetent just like with the economy.

 

[Majestic_Inzi]

Indian are weird people.

The extent they go to to spin news and facts in their favor is insane, like you want to appreciate their hard work trying to spin every negative narrative regarding India but, at the end of the day, Indians are lying.

The thing is we hav large majority of indians defending these stunts.

 

[IMMY69]

Indian are weird people.

The extent they go to to spin news and facts in their favor is insane, like you want to appreciate their hard work trying to spin every negative narrative regarding India but, at the end of the day, Indians are lying.

I said this in February and i’ll say it again, Indian News is fake, biased propaganda to brainwash its masses..

They tried it in Pakistan but thankfully most people have seen though it..

 

[Thomaskutty]

If you're gonna stage a photo-op, atleast make sure you have the right people in the frame and order some fine hyderabadi biriyani lol. Poor form from Doval.

He's done a fine fine job so far managing zero casualties in the 5 days since the 370 repeal but I deduct a point for this.

 

[ReverseHit]

lol this is funny. Nothing else to do except just raise your hands and admit you got caught.

Just keep learning and improving at this propaganda game.

 

[Civil]

lol this is funny. Nothing else to do except just raise your hands and admit you got caught.

Just keep learning and improving at this propaganda game.

Why try to improve the masses will eat up the propoganda regardless.

 

[ReverseHit]

Why try to improve the masses will eat up the propoganda regardless.

There's always more people you can add on the margin to the 'masses'. Like some of the posters in this thread and the writer of the original tweets. There's always room to grow more.

 

[Civil]

There's always more people you can add on the margin to the 'masses'. Like some of the posters in this thread and the writer of the original tweets. There's always room to grow more.

Yes I suppose, but to gather those people you mentioned they would have to start including real news and that has proven to be quite difficult this year especially when election victory was needed. Better to reinforce on the devotees.

 

[ReverseHit]

Yes I suppose, but to gather those people you mentioned they would have to start including real news and that has proven to be quite difficult this year especially when election victory was needed. Better to reinforce on the devotees.

Not really. You just need to do the fake news better, with more conviction. Everyone has a tipping point, after which they will start believing the fake news (if done right) as real, including you, me and other posters on here, no matter how much we like to consider ourselves as 'rational'.

 

[Civil]

Not really. You just need to do the fake news better, with more conviction. Everyone has a tipping point, after which they will start believing the fake news (if done right) as real, including you, me and other posters on here, no matter how much we like to consider ourselves as 'rational'.

Though your point is interesting. the current polarization of world narratives would make The payoff to get to the tipping point definitely not worth it. especially in the case you cited i.e posters and the the originator of the tweet.

If you are referring to an swing voter then your point could be correct, but that is a low hanging fruit in India as far as rationality is concerned, and hence really no need to improve from them propoganda wise they can probably get away with worse.