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Days after The Wire’s exclusive on the Tek Fog app, an intriguing email from a person claiming to be a Persistent Systems insider arrived. It had a malware payload and Protonmail successfully got rid of it.
For much of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nearly eight years in power, the relationship between social media platforms, journalists and India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has been nasty and vitriolic, and almost always murky.
After investigating claims for almost two years on the use of ‘Tek Fog’, The Wire found that online operatives are using this highly sophisticated app to hijack major social media and encrypted messaging platforms and amplify right-wing propaganda to a domestic audience.
The Tek Fog app is an intrusive software application that is used for amplifying right-wing propaganda, The Wire investigation found.
From hijacking the 'trends' sections of social media platforms to phishing 'inactive' WhatsApp accounts, here's a breakdown of what the Tek Fog app can be used for.