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Indian Political App Tek Fog Allegedly Hijacked Trends and Manipulated Public Opinion on Other Social Media Platforms
- Occurred
- Apr 28, 2020
- Published
- Jan 6, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
The Indian political social media app Tek Fog allegedly allowed operatives affiliated with the ruling political party to hijack social media trends and manipulate public opinion on other apps such as Twitter and WhatsApp, which opposition parties denounced as a national security threat.
Developers
- Persistent Systems
Deployers
- Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha
Harmed parties
- Indian women journalists
- Indian voters
- Indian social media users
- Women and girls
- Women
- Social media users
- X (Twitter) users
- WhatsApp users
- Journalists
- Journalistic integrity
- Epistemic integrity
- National security and intelligence stakeholders
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Incident involves manipulation of public opinion and trends, which aligns with bias and misinformation rather than technical failure.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8