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Q. What stopped Indian news organisations from doing the story on Ankhi Das and Facebook that WSJ pulled off?
Clue: Follow the money
Clue: Follow the money
Ankhi and her team have been around screwing with Indian democracy and politics since 2010. When we unraveled some of these threads in 2018, we were called names. Glad that someone unraveled the spool further. https://www.newsclick.in/part-3-who-were-key-players-responsible-facebooks-support-modi-and-bjp
Here's the fun thing. No Indian news organisations is going to follow up on the WSJ story because Ankhi has everyone by their balls. Every mainstream Indian newsroom is financially dependent on Facebook.
It isn't just newsrooms that Ankhi has by balls, think tanks, academics, media and policy studies departments in bourgeoisie Indian universities, journalism colleges, PR companies—FB funds nearly every knowledge production center in India. Everyone knows, no one talks because 
From your Indian Expresses, NewsLaundries, ORFs, academics and departments at Jindals to ACJs, everyone in one way or another depends financially on FB
If you are a current or a former FB employee, hit me up. My DMs are open and can be reached at [email protected]. I'd love to understand how FB's media, policy capture strategy in India works.
With all heat directed at Ankhi, I fear we will miss the role of Shivnath Thukral, public policy director, Facebook India. The former journalist, turned communication specialist, worked from Gandhinagar for the Modi campaign in 2014, creating a network of fake news websites.
In 2017 he was appointed the public policy director of Facebook in India https://www.newsclick.in/part-3-who-were-key-players-responsible-facebooks-support-modi-and-bjp
