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1 @DisinfoEU (EUD) brought out a report on a “web of disinformation” set up by Indian intelligence. This kangaroo court drivel followed no consistent logic & by EUD’s own standards show EUD collusion with Pakistani intelligence & left wing journos in India. Let’s examine

2 first up we need to understand what this latest report is. It adds on a report released by the same group in 2019 claiming to expose the organisation of Madi Sharma. The target this time though is to link @ANI to the Madi Sharma network

3 it claims this is a 15 year operation, IE started by the UPA government under Dr Manmohan Singh. Curiously though in these 15 years it can find only 12 instances of where @ANI this news website called EU chronicle. IE less than once a year.

4 this is key, because we need to understand that their sample set for this “vast disinformation network” is exactly 12 articles - a serious sampling error by any stretch. But the innuendoes and stretches here are mind boggling. Let’s start with this image: it claims EU chronicle

5 and ANI are linked as they covered the same protests using SIMILAR angles, admitting they weren’t able to find the exact footage. However by the end of the report the innuendo becomes fact. Curiously guess who else also covers Anti Pakistan protests? @AFP used by @BBCWorld to

Thread on the #ArnabGate #WhatsAppLeaks. Alleged Journos are outraging how Arnab knew a retaliatory strike for #PulwamaAttack was imminent days before. Well here’s a list of people who knew beforehand
1. @htTweets because the PM said so on 23rd FEB

2. The @IndianExpress knew because the reported Sambit’s speech TK this effect

3. @IndianExpress had been reporting @ImranKhanPTI saying this a full 6 days before the attack. Did Modi call and inform Khan as well?

4. Also on the 24th IE carried PM’s Mann ki Baat

5. By the 19th (8 days prior to Balakot) Imran was worried enough that he even approached the UN to “defuse the situation”.

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1n I think more than Rahul Gandhi - it is Ram Guhas & Kaushik Basus who’ve reduced the congress & the “Idea of India” to zero. They come from privilege & are extremely articulate but are broken records & their writings subject to the law of Diminishing returns.

2n of course the much vaunted left ecosystem is its own enemy. Once they identify you as a “fellow traveller” they go out of their way to promote every mediocrity (unlike the right which won’t promote even its smartest). This is great for individuals - it offers rapid social

3n social mobility. The problem is it also creates a closed echo chamber where no dissenting thought is allowed. Consequently any new views from the ground up never reach the top & the top becomes more and more elite and disconnected from reality. This also incentivises the

4n wannabe social climbers to avoid telling the aspirational left elites the hard cold ground reality & the need to “fit in” reduces the connect the yuppies have to the ground. Of course these elites will capture international narratives easily - but the more they capture the

5n international narrative the more they lose the domestic one. This delusion gets so bad that they get into isomorphic mimicry (imposing western fantasies on incompatible Indian ground realities). In short while Ram Guha and Kaushik may hate Rahul and want him to leave, their