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A social media trend #BoycottIndianProducts was pushed by #MuslimBrotherhood, a radical Islamist front using multiple fake news. It was supported by Qatar-Turkey-Pak nexus.
Objective was to hit India’s image. But the bigger target was Saudi.
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The trend was artificially pushed by MB influencers form Cairo, Doha, and Istanbul.
That the ‘news media’ were also affiliated with MB
And that the main target was Saudi Arabia.
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Al Sagheer of IUMS, a major MB front. Two former Al Jazeera journalist Muzaffar Zaidan & Abu Hilalah, both MB affiliates pushed the trend. Also, Sami Kamal El Din a designated terrorist by Egypt was a key influencer.
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large number of newly created trolls retweeting a small set of posts to make it trending. 80% non-description handles were created recently, many just for the trend – and part of a close network.
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The backbone of the trend was fake news, any video of violence from India was pushed as violence against Muslim, to create a sense of crisis amongst the audience. In desperation, old debunked fake news were also used.
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So they started using the hashtag with totally unrelated posts – just to push the trend up so that media could report – they used them on models to cosmetics to Jordanian border issue!
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This included Rassd News, Arabi21, Al-Araby, Watan-Serb apart former Al Jazeera journalists. Turkish state media TRT World even ran paid promotion of the story on Facebook!
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Surprisingly, we found that an anti-India trend had excessive number of anti-Saudi posts, targeting Saudi Prince #MBS (Md Bin Salman) & UAE. A Turkish Media Al Estiklal was having a field day hitting MBS!
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The fight for leadership of #Ummah
Turkey is projected as new leader of Islamic world replacing Saudi – done through TV series Ertugrul Ghazi to reclaiming mosque Hagia Sophia.
& Erdogan as new leader.
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From tracing ancestry to ‘Arabs’, the Pak ‘narrative - shapers’ have started tracing ancestry to Turkey. Ertugrul was promoted right up to by Pak PM Imran Khan, and Pak media has replaced Saudi with Turkey as an object of eulogy.
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We noted in our previous report that Turkey is becoming the new hub of anti-India radical Islamists. A new nexus patronized by MB is emerging between Qatar, Turkey & Pakistan. This poses a unique challenge – from geo-politics to economy.
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Most of these countries could not compete with India for global market share in a free and fair competition. And therefore, by damaging India’s image in the Muslim world, they plan to capture the market.
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While the Qatar and Turkey might be playing long game, the third wheel – Pakistan saw an opportunity to target India and hone its info-war skills.
So major troll battalions WeareISPIANS, Team Emerging, Team Green Blood and Team VOIK etc. jumped in.
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Smelling opportunities in boycotting Indian products, Pak influencers along with the troll army decide to promote their own rice & give a scant boost to Pak economy.
Till date most productive use of 5th Gen warfare in the history of infowars!
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This was not the first or last targeted campaign against India. But the focus and intensity on the topic, & the amount of misinformation circulated was enormous.
Our inability to see through this is a wake-up call especially for Indian social media users.
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