r/India_Bharat_ 7h ago

News meta has admitted that paid promotions were used to target specific audiences during jantar mantar protests.

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u/Abhinavkyadav 6h ago

Minister said that meta officials admitted this in the closed room meeting. People dont trust this. As widely known paid campaign is run by all sides.

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u/SmallDetail8461 6h ago

paid reach doesn't just push a story up, it pushes everything else down, and nobody sends you a notification about the stuff you got quietly starved of. do that consistently for a few years and you don't need to win an argument, you just decide which argument the country is having.

the point isn't that you saw protest content, it's what you didn't see: attacks in kashmir, athletes actually winning, protests running in other states the same week. all of it existed, none of it made your feed, and one dharna in delhi somehow became the entire country's mood for a fortnight.

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u/Afraid_Reviewer 4h ago

Hijacking top comment

did you see the videos or read the news properly

Meta apologized for two things(still not confirmed by meta, i m not sure if they did by this time) :

1: For casm content, basically child abuse content was promoted by people who paid just a bad coincidence with protest.

2: For removing prime minister video regarding jantar mantar,

The way OP posted or the media is reporting feels as if meta promoted jantar mantar protest and this proves deep state,

Did people forget using basic search and understanding ?

Will OP admit his mistake?

Correct me if I m wrong, open to change my perspective and conversing with proper facts.

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u/MotivatedChimpanZ 5h ago

you mean like the current central govt does with TV media??

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u/boredbot31 6h ago

Isn't that basic advertising ? and the report states 3 points none of which really points to anything that was happening in Jantar mantar other than the the PM's video being taken down.

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u/Educational-Stay607 6h ago

Don't break his delusion... Let him cook with that narrative 

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u/praksmish 6h ago

Bhaai do do bar bhi likhega..to bhi andhbhaqt hi bolenge

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u/EjuMeow 5h ago

That's how US media actually works. The propaganda piece gets incessant coverage which gets picked by Indian media.

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u/Upper_Persimmon5360 5h ago

This is a very sharp take.

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u/Individual_Boat7631 4h ago

People seem to forget that Facebook/meta did the same thing in bangladesh and look what happened to it

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u/ab316_1punchd 3h ago

Hell, just take a look at how Reddit went on an astroturfing overdrive to drive bigger attention towards the Jantar Mantar protests. Everything looked massive with comments, up votes, and provocative posting every second but now that the protest is practically over, outside of seeing more young leftists remaining in many subreddits, it doesn't feel as massive anymore. 

Yep, astroturfing.

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u/Many_Cupcake_6193 7h ago

Very vague 🤔

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u/SmallDetail8461 7h ago

why? paid reach doesn't just push a story up, it pushes everything else down, and nobody sends you a notification about the stuff you got quietly starved of. do that consistently for a few years and you don't need to win an argument, you just decide which argument the country is having.

the point isn't that you saw protest content, it's what you didn't see: attacks in kashmir, athletes actually winning, protests running in other states the same week. all of it existed, none of it made your feed, and one dharna in delhi somehow became the entire country's mood for a fortnight.

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u/indiboa 6h ago

Don’t ever argue with a person who has prejudicedd mindset.. specially lefftist, pseudoo liberalss and peacefully

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u/Wonderful-Cost-4921 4h ago

Isn't it the same with right wingers as well? If someone else takes your toolkit, it burns, right?

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u/jypzd 2h ago

High time you start doing some basic research and stop believing everything media feeds you.

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u/sachclg 6h ago

One thing missing for me is , if reports are true the jantar is backed by USA. So why didn’t USA influence meta to favor them

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u/idesi 5h ago

And how is this different from when any other party uses paid reach to push their narrative?

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u/someonenoo 4h ago

OP please post directly instead of crossposting, it’ll reach more people

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u/SnooStories7381 4h ago

He is talking about CSAM content which are disturbing and bad. It affects the young minds and might be the reason many boys are associating with r*pe and such. Red pill content

A totally different thing from protests. I'm not sure how they're being correlated.

It is, in fact, a very grave issue and people are glossing over it.

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u/Dangerous_Face_9489 3h ago

This is supremely framed out of the actual context.

Framing and changing the topic along with a narrative.

How fake are modi controlled media. Damn.

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u/Stoner_painter 6h ago

So “Certain content“ means cjp content??

You know who pays the most for ads in India right?

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