Much to the relief of frustrated conservatives all over, the rise of Bhai Narendra Modi and social media awareness coincided. Modi despite of a rustic look and speech, proved to be way more tech savvy than all the snobby Congressmen combined. Use of holographic images, social media outlets on the internet was common place in the last two Gujarat elections. Modi used all those tools to a great advantage. But all that pales into comparison to the ability of the so called internet Hindus (or trolls as the traitorous left calls us) to call out the mainstream media lies. Gone are the days when these pot smoking JNU leftists would put out any damn lie and get away unchallenged. A biased article on Modi or a lie on the BJP on twitter is met with an asymmetrical and an overwhelming opposition. This new found power of the conservatives has left the Congress and their media minions in the dust. While the Congress is trying to get their own people to follow Modi’s example, their media goons have started to prove that this tsunami of Modi support on the internet is a lie. To what end do they want to do so, eludes me but examples of the two approaches are as follows.
Cobrapost has recently conducted another sting operation after the snoopgate. The aim was to tarnish and discredit Modi's social media following. Crobapost claims that social media is dangerous, so it must be curtailed.
As the FP article on the Cobrapost sting rightly points out that "None of this is new and no sting operation was required to unravel these known knowns. Brands have been gaming social media since social media existed, as have individuals and political parties. They’re ‘bought’ fans, they’ve ‘bought’ positive interaction and they’ve bought fans. Bots have inundated timelines with positive and negative opinion depending on which was required."
Some time back India Today Group had published an online/social media statewide/national opinion poll which overwhelmingly preferred BJP. The interesting part was that, it was the largest opinion poll and survey was foolproof. There could not have been any tampering as the half million plus participants were required to enter their mobile number to cast their vote.
Here is what the India Today article said: "A mark of their overwhelming online supremacy can be found in the India Today Group's e-lection poll, a mock online General Election in which users were asked to vote in Lok Sabha constituencies across India. The ballot worked through one-time passwords sent to mobile phones, ensuring only one vote for every cell number to prevent rigging. Of the unprecedented 556,460 votes that were cast over a 40-day period till October 30, 338,401 users chose BJP. Even in Uttar Pradesh, which witnesses a four-cornered contest every election, 87.1 per cent of the voters went with the BJP. The results from this self-selected sample may not reflect the ground reality but they prove one thing beyond a shadow of doubt: The Internet is saffron."
It's this overwhelmingly saffron social media that Congress is after and is desperate to stop. As Arun Jaitely rightly said that fake sting operation are on the rise as Congress finds it impossible to curtail Modi. With Tehelka's self infected demise eminent there are other stake holders like Cobrapost and Gulail working overtime to take the spot. From Tejpal's arrest it's apparent that such sleazy sting operations are mostly conducted by people of questionable morals with leftist agendas and an insatiable greed. These sting exposés are far from the meticulous and objective investigative journalism like that of the Daily Pioneer that exposed the 2G scam. Such discredited agencies are funded and propped up by Congress to spread disgusting lies and tarnish the image of the opponents. What else can explain the sudden prominence accorded to Cobrapost’s expose of the BJP’s strength in social media. Though late, Congress realized the importance of this newfound and cheap but powerful medium. Their ministers like Ashoke Gehlot and Ajay Makhan's followed Modi’s suit but could not achieve his popularity. So in typical Congress way they bought followers in Turkey and Russia to show their own internet prowess prominence which has since been exposed as a fraud.
How can you explain the following events and their order?
1. Congress late realization of massive Modi's social media youth following. - Election of Modi's as the BJP election chief -June 2013
2. Ajay Makhan appointed as Congress media cell chief. - June/July 2013
3. Congress Ministers popularity in Turkey, Russia and Ukraine. - Buying Facebook followers in August 2013
4. India Today Group's e-lection opinion poll, a mock online General Election - Published results on 1st November 2013
5. Kapil Sibal opened a twitter account and ended up following an anti Congress site by mistake. When ridiculed by a Twitter user on the opening day and got that users account suspended. - 28th November 2013
6. Cobrapost Sting operation exposing social media and calling for laws to curb it. - 29th November 2013
There we have it folks. When Congress cannot match Modi’s internet popularity and cannot deal with the power of the Internet Hindu, they pull out all the stops. Dirty tricks, curbing free speech and killing the messenger are some things you are witnessing as we speak. Congress’ media machinery has finally arrived at its Waterloo.
The story on Congress' fake internet followers can be read at: http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-08-22/news/41437245_1_facebook-page-iris-knowledge-foundation-facebook-account
The story of Kapil Sibal's disastrous debut on Twitter can be read at: http://www.niticentral.com/2013/11/29/tweeter-cracks-joke-about-kapil-sibal-gets-account-suspended-162853.html
Cobrapost's so called sting on Social media can be read at: http://www.firstpost.com/politics/corporate-india-should-watch-out-what-operationbluevirus-tells-us-1257159.html
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