Not India but ‘next door’ country uses disinformation: marketing campaign: MEA
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The remark from the Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs takes on the report of the EU DisinfoLab which uncovered a 15-year operation specializing in EU and UN with faux native media and NGOs but stopped in need of blaming the Indian authorities immediately for it.
India on Friday responded to EU DisinfoLab’s discovery of an anti-Pakistan disinformation marketing campaign, saying that it’s not India but a country “next door” which shelters terrorists and uses such campaigns.
The remark from the Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs takes on the report of the EU DisinfoLab which uncovered a 15-year operation specializing in EU and UN with faux native media and NGOs but stopped in need of blaming the Indian authorities immediately for it.
“Disinformation is practised particularly by those who have records to hide such as sheltering international wanted terrorists including Osama bin Laden. And seek unsuccessfully to cover up their own tracks such as on the 26/11 Mumbai attack,” stated Anurag Srivastava, Official Spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs.
“As a responsible democracy, India does not practice disinformation campaigns. In fact, if you are looking at disinformation, the best example is the country next door which is circulating fictional and fabricated dossiers and purveys a regular stream of fake news,” stated Mr. Srivastava.
The EU DisinfoLab’s report revealed a big scale 15-year- lengthy operation which focused EU and United Nations with roughly 750 native media and 10 shadowy NGOs.
The report didn’t blame any official company of India but identified that the huge community was used for disseminating data antithetical to Pakistan. The operation lined 65 nations and was traced to Delhi-based Indian entity, the Srivastava Group (SG).
