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How top Meta executive Shivnath Thukral has links with a firm that works for Modi and BJP

The firm, Opalina Technologies, was involved in the #MainBhiChowkidar campaign. Shivnath Thukral owned stake in this firm, and his father continues to do so. Shivnath Thukral, a public policy director, India, at WhatsApp Inc (owned by Facebook, now known as Meta) since March 2020, had once owned a stake in Opalina Technologies – a company that has provided software solutions for India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, the prime minister’s office, the Bharatiya Janata Party.

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Election Commission Failed to Curb Fake News Online Before 2019 Lok Sabha Polls

Caught in the midst of a high-stakes battle on the future of regulating the internet, the EC tried and failed miserably to regulate online propaganda, political campaigning, and fake news prior to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, a recently released report has revealed. The committee set up by ECI examined critical gaps in regulation of political campaigning on social media.

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