When we think of BJP, the things that come to our minds are their lies & distortions and the riots that they carry out on the basis of those lies and distortions. They have a huge technical team to run all this.
We cannot think little of the BJP’s false propaganda. In 2013, during the riots in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, a fake video was shared by the BJP MLA Sangeet Singh Som. But investigations later revealed that the video was two years old.
But, by then more than 60 people had been killed in the riots triggered by that vicious propaganda and more than 60,000 people lost their homes.
The RSS’s WhatsApp networks are primarily responsible for the mob lynching of Muslims and Dalits in northern states for allegedly smuggling cows and possession of beef. Through this, fake news are spreaded to thousands of people in a short span of time. Fake news play an important role in promoting Hindu fanaticism.
The technical team’s main task is to constantly attack and harass those who criticise the RSS-BJP and the Modi government on social media. Many have reviewed this background of the BJP and have published articles and books. Swati Chaturvedi, a journalist who has been a victim of the BJP’s cyber bullying, published a book called “I Am a Troll: Inside the Secret World of the BJP’s Digital Army” after two years of field research on how the BJP do these things.
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Even though various parties have their own technical teams, they cannot be compared to the RSS-BJP’s digital army. First, it was the RSS-BJP that was most advanced in using the new technological features of the digital world. Second, they did not use it merely to carry out charismatic propaganda. These advanced technologies are being used to carry out their saffron fascist terrorist activities.
One such app based on advanced technology is the ‘Tek Fog’. It is a secret app that is playing a vital role in the media campaign of the saffron fascists. The app has come to light only after “The Wire” investigated and published a research article on it.
Social media in the hands of fascist
One of the important methods they use to conceptualize people is to hijack the trending segment of Twitter and Facebook with the Tek Fog app. Creating trends in the favour of BJP; Whenever an issue arises against the BJP, they trend something else to divert the people; The RSS-BJP has been trying to woo the democratic forces that oppose the BJP’s anti-people activities by portraying them in a derogatory manner and trending them.
The Tek Fog app uses its in-built automation features to ‘auto-retweet’ or ‘auto-share’ the tweets and posts of individuals or groups. They use Android apps like “Tasker” to automate them. This ‘Tasker’ is an app that helps to automate the applications on the phone.
Therefore, a single person can control even thousands of Twitter and Facebook accounts using a single Tek Fog app. This allows them to easily capture the trending part of Twitter and Facebook for the posts they create.
While addressing the party’s social media volunteers in Rajasthan’s Kota district in 2018, Home Minister Amit Shah had boasted, “We can keep making messages go viral, whether they are real or fake, sweet or sour”. Such power is provided by apps like Tek Fog.
Apart from trending a message in public, Tek Fog can also be used to privately spread fake news to a person. It can also be used to steal a person’s personal data.
The tech team will send a picture or video on WhatsApp by targeting specific people. As soon as the person downloads the image or video, a spyware enters his/her phone and links his/her WhatsApp account to the Tek Fog app. Thereafter, the contact list and personal details on his/her phone will be collected by the Tek Fog app.
They will keep an eye on that person. In case the person has uninstalled WhatsApp from his/her mobile phone or reset the phone, the tech team will know about that. They will be able to take over his/her defunct WhatsApp account and send their fake propaganda messages to everyone on his/her contact list.
Those receiving these messages will start believing that it is shared by someone close to them. But the owner of the account knows nothing about this. The app is designed in such a way, so that all the data would be destroyed in an instant if the owner of the phone has any doubts about it and starts investigating.
People’s view about WhatsApp is not like other social media. They believe it because we only receive messages mostly from people we knew on WhatsApp. Also the reason why people think WhatsApp as reliable is because the company ensures the security of the information through encryption. All of this has now been called into question by the information that has emerged.
The Tek Fog app has a variety of methods to conceptualize people. One of the methods is to twist an article by changing the key words and circulating its link on social media. For instance, taking an article critical of the BJP and changing the word “BJP” into “Congress” and then forwarding it. The page of this bogus article will be as original as the website on which it is originally published so that readers won’t have any doubts over it.
The people come to know about the world through the news and information. In today’s world, not only newspapers and television but also social media plays a greater role in delivering information. Fascist forces take control of these social media into their hands and decide what should be popular among the people, what should the people talk about, and how their likes and dislikes should be. This is something that really threatens us.
