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Democracy and technology are the two most defining themes of the twenty-first century. Recently, the general belief seems to be that democracy is in crisis. Many seem to have one gnawing concern is democracy failing? How do we fix democracy? Is this the end of democracy? A Google search of these three phrases gives 52,800,000 hits on the first, 56,000,000 hits on the second, and 247,000,000 on the last. But we must ask ourselves, is it the very concept of democracy that is perceived to be failing or is it liberal democracy that is receiving a pushback? Could it not be said that democracy is in an evolution churn, same as the disruption we see across every aspect of life?
This copy-paste technique, experts say, is commonly used to create a false narrative and manufacture opinions.
“I saw the violence by these so-called farmers while reporting today. I have never seen this in my journalism career. Farmers tried to attack me with a tractor and a sword. Obscene acts and abuses were made. My mic was snatched and almost destroyed. Is this a farmer organization or some other organization?” the tweet read in Hindi. It was shared by several handles.
TOI has screenshots of these accounts and shared them with Twitter. Twitter also did not respond to TOI’s questionnaire about whether these accounts violated the microblogging site’s coordinated inauthentic behaviour policy, which prohibits users from amplifying a narrative through mass copy-pasting and fake accounts.