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.
Report reveals targeted operation to serve Indian interests at the UN
Tactics include support for Baluchistan House, an organisation that paid for lobbying campaigns against Pakistan on Geneva’s public transport network, says the report. World Baloch Organisation
The so-called ‘Indian Chronicles’ investigation has accused India-linked organisations of using the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council in Geneva to promote an anti-Pakistan and anti-China narrative.
This content was published on December 10, 2020 - 14:50
December 10, 2020 - 14:50
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On Wednesday, Brussels-based NGO EU DisinfoLab published its “Indian ChroniclesExternal link” investigative report accusing the New Delhi-based Srivastava Group of actively promoting disinformation in Geneva via the UN, which was then amplified in India. The Srivastava Group is an Indian company with diverse business interests, including owning the New Delhi Times newspaper and think tank News from Non-Aligned