The Desperate ‘Algorithm’ Gambit to Oppose Modi

The political and social landscape has been stirred up following the alleged student protests in Delhi. Various facets underlying this agitation are now coming to light—facets that defy the imagination of the common person. The forces that instigated this movement by using students as a front were operating from abroad. Their primary tools for stoking the protests were popular and influential social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The widespread popularity of these three platforms across all strata of Indian society is well known. These media channels are no longer limited to mere entertainment; they have effectively captured the minds of Indians.

These media are influencing our food and drink choices and many other preferences. It has now been revealed that Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, had carried out a devious plot to “hijack” the thinking of many people and impose its political views on them, thereby changing the course of power, in exchange for huge financial investments.

Faced with a stern stance from the Central Government regarding this matter, Meta’s owner, Mark Zuckerberg, was compelled to offer a groveling apology. Zuckerberg is adamant about ensuring these popular platforms generate immense profits, employing every conceivable method, both known and unknown, to amass wealth.

Consequently, he launched a business model that involves seizing control of user algorithms to sow the seeds of specific political and cultural ideologies, serving either his own agenda or that of paying sponsors.

It is evident that professional ethics have absolutely no place in this. ”Meta” is the modern incarnation of the East India Company, which ruled not only India but many countries for hundreds of years through similar crooked, deceitful, and treacherous means.

The average person, who uses platforms like Facebook and Instagram merely for entertainment, has not the slightest inkling of the web they are unwittingly getting entangled in. Ordinary people use Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp simply to watch reels featuring jokes, movie songs, political satire, recipes, spirituality, medical advice, or yoga and pranayama and to read informative articles on these topics. Of course, it is a different matter that people often neglect their work and daily chores to constantly squander their precious time on these very platforms.

Now, let us address the core issue. The Delhi protest was organized via social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. A flood of posts supporting the protest inundated these platforms, aimed at ensuring that as many people as possible viewed and read information about the movement and the opposition to the Modi government.

To obscure the violence perpetrated by a gang of hooligans who had infiltrated the protest on July 20, there was a relentless barrage of posts and reels highlighting and exaggerating the police’s lathi-charge against the students. The average person would never grasp the underlying logic behind this. Meta’s entire machinery was mobilized to create a public perception that the Modi government had unleashed a brutal lathi-charge against students who were merely seeking justice.

Digital campaign machinery swung into action with the aim of ensuring that even those who supported the Modi government would feel sympathy for the protesters due to the sheer barrage of such posts.

Many prominent figures active on social media complain that posts supporting the Modi government reach very few people. For the past five or six years, posts and reels supporting the Modi government or the Bharatiya Janata Party have been virtually invisible on social media. The Bharatiya Janata Party won 303 seats in 2019, and the Modi government returned to power triumphantly.

Prior to that, Rahul Gandhi had leveled allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding the Rafale fighter jet deal; those accusations received massive publicity on social media. However, informative posts demonstrating that no wrongdoing had occurred in the Rafale deal and that Rahul Gandhi’s allegations were completely false were rarely seen.

It is a different story that Rahul Gandhi had to apologize to the Supreme Court because his allegations were false.After the Modi government implemented the Citizenship Amendment Act in 2020, there was a flood of posts on Facebook and other social media platforms promoting how the law was against the country’s Muslims and how it would drive Muslims who had been living in the country for many years out of India.

During the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, there was a tremendous campaign on social media claiming that the Modi government would change the Constitution. After the Delhi agitation, Meta stopped displaying for some time a post showing Prime Minister Modi interacting with students. When it became evident that the situation had crossed all limits, all the members of ‘Meta’ were summoned, and a detailed account of their misdeeds, backed by evidence, was placed before them.

Only then did they offer an apology. The extent to which international forces will go in their opposition to Modi has now become apparent.

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