Damaging retweets

IN Media Watch Briefs | 29/03/2016

How many fake RSS Twitter handles are there and how much damage can they do? @RSS_org for instance is not the official RSS handle. It has 6000 plus tweets (the two official handles @RSSonweb, @RSSorg have barely 500 plus tweets between them) and when it retweets some sly poison from @friendsofRSS do the official handles disown them? On March 28 for instance there were three tweets urging the boycott of Muslim produced goods that @RSS_org retweeted.

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.

Let the games begin

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.