Govt gets online flack

IN Media Watch Briefs | 25/10/2015

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's 'small incidents' are not small in online perception. The I & B ministry's cell which monitors over 400 news channels and websites on a minute to minute basis, is apparently reporting that the huge positive blast generated online by the prime minister's US visit was undone by the Dadri lynching which generated over 28,000 posts online. The sentiment analysis produced by the media monitoring cell noted "huge negative conversations related to the lynching and statements made by BJP politicians." Economic Times

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