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KARACHI: A European non-governmental group has discovered a network of 265 "fake" media managed by an Indian network to influence the European Union and the United Nations with critical content from Pakistan.<\/p>\n
The & # 39; EU DisinfoLab & # 39; It focuses on investigating and addressing sophisticated disinformation campaigns targeting the EU, its member states, central institutions and core values.<\/p>\n
During the investigation, DisinfoLab discovered that fake websites copied anti-Pakistan content from unusual press agencies and expanded material shared by political and obscure think tanks that supported Indian geopolitical interests.<\/p>\n
One of those websites, eptoday.com, which claimed to be a self-proclaimed magazine for the European Parliament in Brussels, had been copying a lot of news word for word.<\/p>\n
Much of EP Today's content was extracted from the US-funded Voice of America media, linked to the interests of the Indians and was critical of Pakistan, according to DisinfoLab's research. The website published a large number of articles and opinion articles related to minorities in Pakistan.<\/p>\n
The investigation found that the Indian media managed the media, linked to a large network of expert groups, NGOs and companies of the Srivastava Group.<\/p>\n
The EU DisinfoLab found that the address of the EP Today office was the same as that of the Srivastava Group based in New Delhi. The IP address of the Srivastava Group was also home to the dark online media "New Delhi Times" and the International Institute of Non-Aligned Studies (IINS).<\/p>\n
Recently, the dark IINS invited 27 members of the European Parliament to meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n
In Geneva, where the UN Refugee Agency is based, the group discovered timesofgeneva.com, an online newspaper that "is approaching 35 years in business." The "Times of Geneva" published the same type of content as EP Today and produced videos covering events and demonstrations that criticize Pakistan's role in the Kashmir conflict.<\/p>\n
Through the website, the network served the lobbying interests of India in Geneva towards the United Nations.<\/p>\n
The analysis of fake websites revealed that most of them are named after an extinct local newspaper or a parody of the real media. They reissued anti-Pakistan content in the rest of the Indian influence network, including fake media such as EP Today, 4NewsAgency, Times Of Geneva, New Delhi Times. Most websites also had a Twitter account.<\/p>\n
The DisinfoLab found evidence that both EP Today and the Geneva Times had extremely strong links with a network of NGOs and expert groups, such as the European Organization for Minorities in Pakistan and the Women's Human Rights Organization of Pakistan.<\/p>\n
According to DisinfoLab's analysis, the purpose of these fake news media was to influence international institutions and elected representatives with coverage of specific events and demonstrations. They also provided NGOs with useful press material to strengthen their credibility and therefore be impactful.<\/p>\n
The network added several layers of media that cited and republished each other, making it difficult for the reader to track the manipulation and, in turn, (sometimes) offers an illusion of international support for Indian geopolitical interests.<\/p>\n
The main objective was to influence public perceptions of Pakistan by multiplying its iterations in search engines.<\/p>\n
Published on Dawn, November 14, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/pre>\n<\/pre>\n Source: https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1516555\/over-260-fake-media-outlets-set-up-by-indian-network-to-target-pakistan-report<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KARACHI: A European non-governmental group has discovered a network of 265 "fake" media managed by an Indian network to influence the European Union and the United Nations with critical content from Pakistan. The & # 39; EU DisinfoLab & # 39; It focuses on investigating and addressing sophisticated disinformation campaigns targeting the EU, its member […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11077],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umang.pk\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}