{"id":19794,"date":"2018-09-22T18:37:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T13:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=19794"},"modified":"2018-09-27T15:47:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T10:17:50","slug":"alt-news-expose-fake-news-peddling-fb-page-the-india-eye-and-its-gujarat-connnection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/alt-news-expose-fake-news-peddling-fb-page-the-india-eye-and-its-gujarat-connnection\/","title":{"rendered":"Alt News expos\u00e9: Fake News peddling FB page ‘The India Eye’ and its Gujarat connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senior journalist Ravish Kumar had made a speech last year at Press Club, Delhi on the murder of veteran journalist Gauri Lankesh. Soon after, his 10-minute speech was truncated to 11 seconds by many on social media and presented in a manner that Kumar came across as speaking on behalf of a political party. BJP IT Cell Head Amit Malviya<\/a> had circulated the mischievously cropped video. However, he wasn’t the only one. A Facebook page that goes by the name ‘The India Eye’<\/strong> had also shared the video (which is now deleted), with the caption –\u00a0“Which Party is Ravish Kumar talking about? A Freudian slip?”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Which Party is Ravish Kumar talking about? A Freudian slip? pic.twitter.com\/4GBWxgrghh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 The India Eye (@TheIndiaEye) September 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the original video,\u00a0Kumar is urging PM Modi to speak to his own party workers and tell them that people like Dadhichi are not true nationalists. This clip can be accessed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A quick scroll through ‘The India Eye’ would divulge many more such misleading claims. The page has a following of over 17 lakhs and its posts are liked and shared by thousands on a daily basis. During the course of this article, we would investigate the origin of this page and present several other instances of its blatant propaganda.<\/p>\n

The origin of ‘The India Eye’<\/b><\/h2>\n

‘The India Eye’\u00a0Facebook page<\/a> had a phone number (8586993060)<\/strong> and its domain name (theindiaeye.com)<\/strong> provided in the\u00a0‘About’<\/a> section.<\/p>\n

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Alt News searched for the phone number on Twitter and found that it was first posted from a handle ‘HeMan NAMO’ (@HemanNamo)<\/strong>. In fact, HeMan Namo has promoted this number as ‘The India Eye’ Whatsapp number multiple times from his Twitter<\/a>\u00a0profile.<\/p>\n

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WhatsApp \u092a\u0930 \u091d\u0942\u0920\u0940 \u0916\u093c\u092c\u0930\u094b\u0902 \u0914\u0930 \u0926\u0942\u0936 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u091a\u093e\u0930 \u0938\u0947 \u092c\u091a\u0947\u0902 \u0964<\/p>\n

\u0938\u091a\u094d\u091a\u0940 \u0916\u093c\u092c\u0930\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u0947 \u0932\u093f\u090f THE INDIA EYE WhatsApp \u0938\u0947 \u091c\u0941\u0921\u093c\u0947\u0902 \u0964 8586993060 pic.twitter.com\/ULZdM6QJcV<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 HeMan NAMO ( \u0928\u092e\u094b: ) \ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\ude4f (@HemanNamo) December 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While going through old tweets of HeMan Namo, we found an August 2012<\/a> tweet that included a Facebook link-\u00a0‘fb.me\/2hQEDGhIO<\/a>‘<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/t.co\/JhOBfFiS<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 HeMan NAMO ( \u0928\u092e\u094b: ) \ud83d\ude4f\ud83d\ude4f (@HemanNamo) August 15, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clicking on the link redirected us to –\u00a0‘facebook.com\/on.himanshujain<\/strong>\/posts\/274979465944900′<\/em>. This link was dysfunctional as the post was taken down but the URL implied that the name of the person running the Twitter handle @HemanNamo could be\u00a0Himanshu Jain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, we tried accessing the ‘on.himanshujain’ page by visiting the URL – ‘facebook.com\/on.himanshujain’<\/a>. <\/em>But surprisingly, we were redirected to the Facebook page of ‘The India Eye’ instead. This suggested that ‘facebook.com\/on.himanshujain’ was merged with ‘The India Eye’ page. To get a clearer picture of how we conclusively established the link step by step, watch the video below:<\/p>\n