The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting on January 12 busted six YouTube channels which were “working in a coordinated manner and spreading false information in India”.
The six YouTube channels — Samvaad TV, Nation TV, Sarokar Bharat, Nation 24, Swarnim Bharat and Samvaad Samachar — were found to be “operating as part of a coordinated disinformation network, had nearly 20 lakh subscribers and their videos have been watched over 51 crore times”.
The PIB Fact Check Unit of the Ministry released six separate Twitter threads having over “100 fact-checks to counter the fake news spread by these channels”. This is the second such action from the unit where entire channels have been busted.
A #YouTube channel 'Samvaad TV' with over 10 lakh subscribers was found to be propagating #FakeNews about the Government of India and making false claims about the statements of the Union Ministers. @PIBFactCheck
— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) January 12, 2023
found almost all of its content to be fake.
Here's a thread pic.twitter.com/MQxsMF7CeI
A senior official said that the channels Samvaad Samachar, Samvaad TV and Nation TV changed their names to Inside India, Inside Bharat and Nation Weekly respectively, after being “busted”.
The videos on the channels in question included false claims regarding the ban on electronic voting machines, and false statements attributed to senior Constitutional functionaries including the President and the Chief Justice of India.
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