New: Under pressure from the Hindu right, Netflix and Amazon in India drop projects touching on political, social issues and documentaries. After "Tandav," Amazon's head went into hiding and surrendered passport. Netflix execs feared risk of arrest.
Gerry Shih
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Gerry Shih
@gerryshih
Washington Post
- New: a series of stories from the Post examining how India’s ruling party and its affiliated groups wield social media and technology to cement its power, sow division and drown out dissent…
- Replying to @gerryshih1. How the BJP and Indian right uses a massive whatsapp pyramid model to spread election material that is often inflammatory and impossible to monitor — a machine that it pioneered and mastered like no party in the world. We went to Karnataka to observe
- Replying to @gerryshih2. How Facebook employees caught the Indian army spreading disinfo and targeting journalists in Kashmir, but didn’t act for 18 months, citing fears about Modi govt backlash— a pattern with US tech giants in India W/ @josephmenn
- The world really should pay more attention to what’s happening in India-@ECISVEEP, as a Constitutional body of our great country, can take Suo Motu cognizance of such flagrant communal polarisation by a political party during election time We must wait and watch what @ECISVEEP under @rajivkumarec will do on this. Will the ECI act against the BJP?
00:00 - Replying to @gerryshih3. The tale of Monu and his men. How a cow vigilante gained political clout in real life and online by streaming car chases beatings and shootings, a violent rise abetted by Silicon Valley and the BJP government on Delhi’s doorstep w/ @pranshuverma_
- An empire built on coal. He's the world's biggest private developer of coal mines and power plants, with 60% of revenue from coal. Our long read on the world's third richest man, Gautam Adani: w/ @NihaMasih @AnantGuptaAG
- Big, big scoop from @Dimi US foiled assassination attempt on Sikh separatist Pannun, warned Indian govt about the attempt this summer and Feds have filed a sealed indictment in NY. "One person charged in the indictment is believed to have left the US"
- Difficult to imagine if BBC were raided in Moscow or Beijing, Ned Price would speak only “broadly” (0:27) about press freedom or “couldn’t say” (1:09) whether raids on media offices contradict Biden admin’s democracy policy.#WATCH | We are aware of the search of BBC offices in Delhi by Indian tax authorities. I would say more broadly that we support the importance of free press around the world: US State Dept Spokesperson Ned Price on IT survey at BBC offices in India
00:00 - Replying to @gerryshihToday, shows are scoured, re-edited to cut scenes of praying or god names. Greenlit projects like Suketu Mehta's Maximum City are quietly dropped. The RSS told us they don't want negative portrayals of India and Hinduism. "It's invisible censorship," said Anurag Kashyap
- There’s a vast and basic gulf between holding the ruling party to account for the public interest and siding with/carrying water for the opposition. Willfully conflating the two to proudly justify being a government mouthpieceThe media cannot play the role of the Opposition, expecting it to do that leads to unfair charges of Godi or Modi media. If the Opposition is in disarray, the media cannot be blamed for it. We are observers in this boxing match, we are not the players: Kalli Purie, Vice
00:00 - Incredible scenes in India. For weeks pro-govt anchors have paved way for today by peddling conspiracy theory that BBC is Chinese propaganda. Mindboggling for anyone who knows anything: BBC is perhaps the org *most* detested by the CCP as "foreign hand"
