‘Indian influence group runs 265 fake news sites’

NEW DELHI: Over 265 fake news sites in more than 65 countries are managed by an “Indian influence network”, according to a study by EU DisinfoLab, an NGO that researches and tackles “sophisticated disinformation campaigns targeting the EU, its member states, core institutions and core values”.
The group stated it began to study the website of a portal (eptoday.com) that calls itself a monthly news magazine for the European parliament after “we unexpectedly found a large number of articles and op-eds related to minorities in Pakistan as well as other India-related matters (on the website).” The study adds that the EU Disinformation Task Force called European External Action Service’s East StratCom had earlier busted EP Today as a “lobby group” in October, 2019.
“EU DisinfoLab discovered that EP Today is managed by Indian stakeholders, with ties to a large network of think tanks, NGOs, and companies from the Srivastava Group. We also found that the IP address of the Srivastava Group is also home to the obscure online media ‘New Delhi Times’ and the International Institute for Non-Aligned Studies (IINS), which are all based at the same address in New Delhi,” it says.
IINS was the body which had invited 27 members of European Parliament to visit Kashmir on October 29.
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1. ^{^} disinformation (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
2. ^{^} European parliament (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
3. ^{^} Pakistan (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
4. ^{^} Kashmir (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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