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Meet Ashok Gupta – the director of Aadhyaasi Media, the company that runs @OpIndia_com.
He's also listed as director of OpIndia's holding company, and the company that runs @tfipost. He's been an RSS worker all his life, and has had ties with the BJP
![[Thread]Meet Ashok Gupta – the director of Aadhyaasi Media, the company that runs @OpIndia_com. He's also listed as director of OpIndia's holding company, and the company that runs @tfipost. He's been an RSS worker all his life, and has had ties with the BJP](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbM73pJXYAAbSVJ.png "[Thread]Meet Ashok Gupta – the director of Aadhyaasi Media, the company that runs @OpIndia_com. He's also listed as director of OpIndia's holding company, and the company that runs @tfipost. He's been an RSS worker all his life, and has had ties with the BJP")
![[Thread]Meet Ashok Gupta – the director of Aadhyaasi Media, the company that runs @OpIndia_com. He's also listed as director of OpIndia's holding company, and the company that runs @tfipost. He's been an RSS worker all his life, and has had ties with the BJP](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbM75u5WAAYg3Er.jpg "[Thread]Meet Ashok Gupta – the director of Aadhyaasi Media, the company that runs @OpIndia_com. He's also listed as director of OpIndia's holding company, and the company that runs @tfipost. He's been an RSS worker all his life, and has had ties with the BJP")
![[Thread]Meet Ashok Gupta – the director of Aadhyaasi Media, the company that runs @OpIndia_com. He's also listed as director of OpIndia's holding company, and the company that runs @tfipost. He's been an RSS worker all his life, and has had ties with the BJP](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbM79VHXQAUIauj.jpg "[Thread]Meet Ashok Gupta – the director of Aadhyaasi Media, the company that runs @OpIndia_com. He's also listed as director of OpIndia's holding company, and the company that runs @tfipost. He's been an RSS worker all his life, and has had ties with the BJP")
![[Thread]Meet Ashok Gupta – the director of Aadhyaasi Media, the company that runs @OpIndia_com. He's also listed as director of OpIndia's holding company, and the company that runs @tfipost. He's been an RSS worker all his life, and has had ties with the BJP](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbM8HasXgAECAf-.jpg "[Thread]Meet Ashok Gupta – the director of Aadhyaasi Media, the company that runs @OpIndia_com. He's also listed as director of OpIndia's holding company, and the company that runs @tfipost. He's been an RSS worker all his life, and has had ties with the BJP")
Meet Ashok Gupta – the director of Aadhyaasi Media, the company that runs @OpIndia_com.
He's also listed as director of OpIndia's holding company, and the company that runs @tfipost. He's been an RSS worker all his life, and has had ties with the BJP
A dataset prepared by @newslaundry shows that @OpIndia_com published at least 25 fake news stories and 14 misreported ones in the last 2 years.
They've been accused of plagiarism, blacklisted from Wiki, & denied IFCN's fact-checker certification. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KZ8uboNOOhGztxSMMJOHk5T7rP2IuBOdHya5yWxuE_8/edit#gid=0
They've been accused of plagiarism, blacklisted from Wiki, & denied IFCN's fact-checker certification. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KZ8uboNOOhGztxSMMJOHk5T7rP2IuBOdHya5yWxuE_8/edit#gid=0
In May and June 2020, as part of a campaign led by @StopFundingHate, more than two dozen advertisers have withdrawn ads from @OpIndia_com, citing "insidious content" and "hateful views". This includes:
Tylko
MUBI India
Monster
CarMax
IPSoft
Sonic
Story: https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/06/23/opindia-hate-speech-vanishing-advertisers-and-an-undisclosed-bjp-connection
Tylko
MUBI India
Monster
CarMax
IPSoft
Sonic
Story: https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/06/23/opindia-hate-speech-vanishing-advertisers-and-an-undisclosed-bjp-connection
NL reached out to well-known brands whose programmatic ads appear on @OpIndia_com. Adidas wrote back saying they'll prevent any association "indirectly/directly with the said platform".
Dubai-based FinTech Hive also said it is rescinding ads from the website. @StopFundingHate
Dubai-based FinTech Hive also said it is rescinding ads from the website. @StopFundingHate
In a chat with @StopFundingHate's Richard Wilson, I learnt something startling: white nationalists in the UK have picked up "OpIndia's rhetorical brand of anti-Muslim hatred".
On the brighter side, Richard says that the strategy to target advtisers has worked in the West.
On the brighter side, Richard says that the strategy to target advtisers has worked in the West.
For those curious, here is the ownership structure of @OpIndia_com. Ashok Kumar Gupta, who has links with RSS and BJP, appears most prominently in this chart.
All this and much more in my report on India's premier hate speech portal. @newslaundry https://www.newslaundry.com/2020/06/23/opindia-hate-speech-vanishing-advertisers-and-an-undisclosed-bjp-connection
While global campaigns push for ethical advertising, the logical conclusion is news without ads. Until they disappear, media will only cater to their advtisers.
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