Tractor to Twitter: How farmers developed their social media plan to convey their views
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he protesters have a strong presence on other digital platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube as well to tell their side of the story directly to whoever is willing to listen.
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The farmers say they were forced to develop a social media strategy as people opposed to their demands were spreading false news and propaganda online.
On December 30, just ahead of another round of talks between the farmers and the Centre over three contentious draft laws, a representative of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Dakaunda), Jagmohan Singh, took to Facebook Live to give Kisan Ekta Morcha’s followers a preview of the talks.
Talks with Centre, reply to government s letter on agenda of farmers meeting today
The farmer unions also plan to approach the British government requesting that Prime Minister Boris Johnson should not attend the Republic Day parade, for which he has consented to be the chief guest.
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Farmer leaders during their ongoing agitation against the new farm laws at Singhu border in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Photo | Shekhar Yadav/EPS)
Express News Service
CHANDIGARH: After the Centre’s renewed offer of talks, the farmers unions on Tuesday said the final decision on holding further communication with the government will be taken at their joint meeting on Wednesday.
“We have a team of four persons to decide on editorial content. Controversy was due to communication gap. There was nothing wrong with editorial. Some people had objected over Udoke, who had written the editorial. But later we clarified that he was not in our editorial team. He just wrote editorial,” said Ajaypal Natt, another member of ‘Trolley Times’ team and son of a farmer union leader Sukhdarshan Natt.
Sukhpreet Udoke said, “No one could explain to me what was wrong with editorial. My opposition was only due to one reason that I am seen as Sikh writer and activist. Farmer unions are mostly Left and they are not able to tolerate diversity in this agitation. They are in fix as decision making is no more in their hands due to massive size of this agitation and it is the reason that they are searching for scapegoats.”
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1 Farmers during their ongoing agitation against the new farm laws, at Singhu border, in New Delhi, on Tuesday, December 22, 2020. PTI
New Delhi, December 22
The newly-formed social media cell of the farmers’ collective announced on Tuesday that a web conference would be conducted to address all queries regarding the three new farm laws and the protest against it.
The webinar, to be hosted on video conference platform Zoom on Thursday noon, will be open for the first “10,000 people” registering on the link, which they would disclose. Those who cannot make it to the first 10,000 can watch the webinar on social media platforms, it said.
Facebook Blocks Kisan Ekta Morcha Account, Restores it Later After User Outrage
The development comes even as Facebook is battling allegations of favouring the BJP.
The page was restored after nearly three hours.
Agriculture21/Dec/2020
New Delhi: A prominent Facebook account used by farmers protesting the Narendra Modi governmentâs new agriculture laws was removed by the social media giant on Sunday evening, before being restored after sparking outrage online.
The account called âKisan Ekta Morchaâ has over 100,000 followers and identifies itself as the official platform of the Kisan Andolan. It regularly publishes updates on the protests, videos of speeches given by farmer union leaders and also counters what it claims is misinformation by the Centre.