Reuters: Facebook, Twitter sucked into India-Pakistan information war
ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Pakistani social media campaigner Hanzala Tayyab leads about 300 ultra-nationalist cyber warriors fighting an internet war with arch-foe India, in a battle that is increasingly sucking in global tech giants such as Twitter and Facebook.
Tayyab, 24, spends his days on Facebook and encrypted WhatsApp chatrooms organizing members of his Pakistan Cyber Force group to promote anti-India content and make it go viral, including on Twitter where he has more than 50,000 followers.
That ranges from highlighting alleged Indian human rights abuses to lionizing insurgents battling Indian security forces in Kashmir, a disputed Himalayan region at the heart of historic tensions between Pakistan and India.
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WNU Editor: Facebook is trying to put a stop to this ....
Facebook removes fake accounts tied to Indian political parties, Pakistan’s military (Los Angeles Times), but I predict it will fall short. Social media is huge in Pakistan and India, and trying to regulate the content on these platforms is almost next to impossible.
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