‘Aarthi Sharma’ Twitter account who formed the basis of ’20 month long investigation’ carried out by The Wire to conjure up ‘Tek Fog’ the super app with incredible powers which it claimed was created by the BJP to harass women and political opponents now stands suspended.
‘Aarthi Sharma’ Twitter account was created in April 2020 at the beginning of COVID pandemic where the user claimed they were disgruntled BJP IT Cell worker and were paid ‘Rs 2’ per tweet to harass women journalists and other political opponents. This ‘Aarthi Sharma’ was also the one to first and only time mention ‘Tek Fog’, a super app it accused the BJP of having created to harass women and journalists.
The obscure account was created in April 2022 and had only 121 tweets till July 31, 2020 when it became inactive. It was inactive till now when it suddenly got ‘suspended’. On April 24, 2020, ‘Aarthi Sharma’ invoked BJP IT Cel head Amit Malviya as an ‘all powerful individual’.
‘Aarthi Sharma’ was now officially the BJP whistleblower. When she invoked ‘Tek Fog’, many journalists had reached out to the account for more details, but the account never shared anything publicly.
In January 2022, The Wire published first of its two-part series on ‘Tek Fog’, the mysterious app first talked about by ‘Aarthi Sharma’. The Wire even credited ‘Aarthi Sharma’ as being a whistleblower and claimed they interacted with this individual for over a year and a half to gather all evidences against the BJP IT Cell and...
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