EU Disinfo Lab blows the lid off pro-India fake news apparatus! Investigation reveals 750 fake media outlets in 116 countries, impersonation, identity theft and even resurrection of the dead!
Sabrangindia11 Dec 2020
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An investigation by EU Disinfo Lab has made some startling revelations about how multiple media outlets, think tanks and non-government organisations (NGO) are surreptitiously pushing a pro-India agenda at various international fora including the United Nations (UN) as well as in the European Union (EU). Much of the content created and spread via the elaborate set-up unearthed by the investigators aimed at discrediting Pakistan, in a bid to further Indian interests.
ISLAMABAD: A dead professor and numerous defunct organisations were resurrected and used alongside at least 750 fake media outlets in a vast 15-year global disinformation campaign to serve Indian.
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The dead professor and the vast pro-India disinformation campaign
By Abid Hussain & Shruti Menon
BBC Urdu & BBC Reality Check
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image captionThe UN Human Rights Council meets at least three times a year and reviews UN member states rights records A dead professor and numerous defunct organisations were resurrected and used alongside at least 750 fake media outlets in a vast 15-year global disinformation campaign to serve Indian interests, a new investigation has revealed.
The man whose identity was stolen was regarded as one of the founding fathers of international human rights law, who died aged 92 in 2006.
The network was designed primarily to discredit Pakistan internationally and influence decision-making at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and European Parliament, EU DisinfoLab said.