{"id":10046,"date":"2018-03-12T22:25:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T16:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=10046"},"modified":"2018-03-12T22:25:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T16:55:05","slug":"alt-news-expose-an-attempt-to-build-online-public-opinion-against-farmers-long-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/alt-news-expose-an-attempt-to-build-online-public-opinion-against-farmers-long-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Alt News expos\u00e9: An attempt to build online public opinion against farmers&#8217; long march"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cFriends as you must be aware of the Kisan Long march which is clearly a political stunt by the Left. After historic dissions and plans\u2026.implemented by Maharashtra Govt. It&#8217;s the time to stand strong with our government. So lets trend #KisanThanksDevendra and show our support to our beloved Devendra Sarkar.\u201d<\/em> In an attempt to build public opinion against Farmers\u2019 long march to Mumbai, the BJP&#8217;s social media supporters were up to their usual tricks. The 22 page <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1-lVv3Ak3TKXEEj0WeWseCd5T1jUqkPhm75UGtQLezXQ\/edit\">Google document<\/a> provided tweet templates to BJP supporters and was circulated on the party\u2019s WhatsApp group.<\/p>\n<p>A screencast video of the document can be seen below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A screen-cast video of the above document can be seen here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sa6oyBdX7z\">pic.twitter.com\/sa6oyBdX7z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pratik Sinha (@free_thinker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/free_thinker\/status\/973100623615877120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Even as thousands of farmers were on the streets to press their demands in an unprecedented rally, #KisanThanksDevendra was the hashtag planned to initiate a fake twitter trend showing an overwhelming support for the Fadnavis government. Clearly rattled by this show of strength, the &#8216;IT cell&#8217;\u2019s social media strategy involved singing praises of the Fadnavis government, maligning the opposition and discrediting the Farmers\u2019 march. Some of the sample tweets were as follows:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhy has the Left suddenly become active to take the farmers\u2019 cause? Why is that only farmers from northern Maharashtra participating in the farmers\u2019 morcha? #KisanThanksDevendra\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cProtestors are not farmers \u00a0#KisanThanksDevendra http:\/\/ras.org.in\/the_kisan_sabha_and_adivasi_struggles_in_thane_district_after_1947\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn the Year of 2016-17 Maharashtra Govt invested 56000 Cr in Agriculture #KisanThanksDevendra\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cUrban Maoist cadres are participating in it, they are poor tribals and not farmers. \u00a0Their demand is about farming rights in forest. Communist want another incident like like bhima koregaon, Congress, NCP providing tacit support for this. #KisanThanksDevendra\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alt News spotted a copy of the Google Doc circulating in a WhatsApp group of BJP supporters and decided to counter it on Twitter in a series of tweets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A 22 page document with instructions to trend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KisanThanksDevendra?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KisanThanksDevendra<\/a> is being shared in BJP WhatsApp groups.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jgoG6yH4WN\">https:\/\/t.co\/jgoG6yH4WN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Screenshots of the same can be seen below. Do observe the people accessing the document on the top right. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w3FGQU9Bkw\">pic.twitter.com\/w3FGQU9Bkw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pratik Sinha (@free_thinker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/free_thinker\/status\/973097690975256576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">More than 35000 Adivasis and Farmers have reached Azaad Maidan. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KisanLongMarch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KisanLongMarch<\/a><br \/>I request all our BJP Online warriors to copy paste below Tweets with hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KisanThanksDevendra?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KisanThanksDevendra<\/a><br \/>We&#39;ve sent 25 pages of Google docs.  Earn Rs. 5 per Tweet. Hurry! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r3oM78YDbB\">pic.twitter.com\/r3oM78YDbB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Unofficial Sususwamy (@swamv39) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/swamv39\/status\/973098896670052354?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Soon other Twitter users caught on to mock this attempt of the IT cell. In a hilarious turn of events, #KisanThanksDevendra became a joke on Twitter. The trend was hijacked by those sharing jokes and memes about it. The top retweets were for the tweets of Alt News founders exposing the fake trend.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">+ And sure enough, here are the usual suspects copy-pasting tweets from the document to trend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KisanThanksDevendra?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KisanThanksDevendra<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MlImsyuWKk\">pic.twitter.com\/MlImsyuWKk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fake Trend Hunter (@trollabhakt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trollabhakt\/status\/973114282979315712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Over 2500 farmers took their lives in Maharashtra in 2017 and Sanghis are trying to trend<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KisanThanksDevendra?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KisanThanksDevendra<\/a> hashtag in twitter right now.<\/p>\n<p>The shameless hypocrisy of BJP is endless. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ImcXaEwKqg\">pic.twitter.com\/ImcXaEwKqg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Advaid (@Advaidism) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Advaidism\/status\/973107576370905089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At-least two of the people accessing the document and tweeting using the #KisanThanksDevendra hashtag were familiar names &#8211; Karan Sharma with Twitter handle <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IKaransharma27\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@IKaransharma27<\/a> and Mehul Jain with Twitter handle <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TigerNamo\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TigerNamo<\/a>. While Mehul Jain had the opportunity to meet the Prime Minister in his office, Karan Sharma describes himself as a RSS Swayamsevak and is followed by the PM on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/03\/4_12_03_2018_001-1024x526.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"358\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/03\/4_12_03_2018_001-1024x526.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/03\/4_12_03_2018_001-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/03\/4_12_03_2018_001-768x394.png 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/03\/4_12_03_2018_001-696x357.png 696w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/03\/4_12_03_2018_001-1068x548.png 1068w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/03\/4_12_03_2018_001-818x420.png 818w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/03\/4_12_03_2018_001.png 1917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the Alt News expose, the #KisanThanksDevendra hashtag was abandoned by the IT cell and instead they started tweeting by prefixing all their tweets with &#8216;FARMERS WITH DEVENDRA&#8217;. With social media users becoming more aware of the tactics of the IT cell, it won\u2019t be surprising if future attempts to force trend hashtags meet a similar fate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFriends as you must be aware of the Kisan Long march which is clearly a political stunt by the Left. After historic dissions and plans\u2026.implemented by Maharashtra Govt. It&#8217;s the time to stand strong with our government. So lets trend #KisanThanksDevendra and show our support to our beloved Devendra Sarkar.\u201d In an attempt to build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":10070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[120],"class_list":["post-10046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alt News expos\u00e9: An attempt to build online public opinion against farmers&#039; long march - Alt News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alt News expos\u00e9: An attempt to build online public opinion against farmers&#039; long march - Alt News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cFriends as you must be aware of the Kisan Long march which is clearly a political stunt by the Left. 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