One of the strangest tech journalism stories in recent memory.
that does not exist, and uploaded hundreds of documents in that group and shared all of these things with us.”’s telling, at least two different sources are responsible for the leaked documents it has published — indicating that if this is a hoax, it is a more elaborate one than is found in most journalism scandals.approached its original source and asked about the Instagram takedowns, it only took 20 minutes for that person to send the report regarding Malviya’s XCheck status.
The reporters dismissed this explanation for two reasons. First, the pay slips and badge shown to them by one of their sources, along with the DKIM verification, convinced them that they are dealing with a real Meta employee. Second, if the BJP wanted to target, why waste it on a story about posts from an Instagram account with fewer than 700 followers?told us it would consult with outside experts in a further effort to verify its documents and seek to build trust with readers.
The idea that Meta had granted a politician the right to remove Instagram posts at will — in some cases, minutes after they were posted — is an extraordinary claim.
— and is doing so in the open, without the benefit of any secret XCheck program. Twitter sued the country in July amid mounting requests to remove posts that appear to go beyond the government’s legal authority. It would be a tragedy if, in an effort to prove something that was already obviously true, someone felt compelled to offer a lie in support of it. That the BJP is putting pressure on social networks to do its bidding is no secret. The party has done so brazenly, in the open — and it’s in this respect that, compared toJoin the conversation
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