New Delhi, India – A Brussels-based NGO working to combat disinformation against the European Union has unearthed a 15-year-old operation run by an Indian entity that used hundreds of fake media outlets and the identity of a dead professor to target Pakistan.
The EU DisinfoLab in its report, Indian Chronicles: deep dive into a 15-year operation targeting the EU and United Nations to serve Indian interests, termed this as the “largest network” of disinformation they have exposed so far.
The report released on Wednesday said the disinformation network run by the Srivastava Group, a New Delhi-based entity, was designed primarily to “discredit Pakistan internationally” and influence decision-making at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the European Parliament.
Indian Network of Fake Media Outlets Targeted Pakistan: Report
December 10, 2020
EU DisinfoLab has found the operation launched in 2015 comprises more than 750 fake media outlets covering over 119 countries
The Brussels-based EU DisinfoLab this week released an investigative report exposing a “massive [Indian] operation” producing and amplifying content to primarily undermine Pakistan.
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Indian Chronicles report, spanning 89 pages, says a network of coordinated NGOs serving Indian interests have abused the U.N. Human Rights Council for the past 15 years. “
Indian Chronicles resurrected dead media, dead think-tanks and NGOs. It even resurrected dead people. The actors behind this operation hijacked the names of others and tried to impersonate regular media and press agencies such as the
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