The think tank that organised a recent visit of right-wing EU parliamentarians to Kashmir is linked to massive fake news bust
A vast network of Indian fake news websites in dozens of countries have been created to promote Indian diplomatic interests, especially New Delhi’s criticism of Pakistan, a European news watchdog says in aThe Brussels-based EU DisinfoLab, an NGO, has discovered 265 bogus media outlets in 65 countries that are managed by what it calls an ‘Indian influence network’, which has in recent months tried to whitewash India’s annexation of disputed Kashmir territory.
Under the garb of names such as The American Weekly, Times of Bulgaria and Times of Cyprus, this network tries to give itself a cover of legitimacy, according to the DisInfo Lab’s database. The network of fake news websites, two of which have been traced to Pakistan, were used to target policymakers in the United States and the European Union.
DisInfo Lab linked Eptoday to a controversial India-based Srivastava Group, an umbrella organisation with a host of think tanks and NGOs under its name. “Specifically, the websites of these NGOs and think tanks are hosted on the same servers and/or staff have worked for one of these previous organisations while publishing articles for EP Today.”
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