Ishaana is a researcher and writer at Logically. She is a qualified lawyer and has had experience in the field of public policy with a focus on tech-policy and national security. Her area of investigations includes disinformation campaigns aimed at disrupting civil society. She is interested in politics and literature.
On January 1, a Chinese state-affiliated media Twitter handle posted a video purportedly showing People’s Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers hoisting the Chinese national flag in “Galwan Valley, South-west China.” On January 2, the same account posted...
Indian disinformation campaigns around economic entities often keep nationalism center stage. Targets tend to be foreign companies (such as Amazon or Monsanto) or else whole countries (such as the #BoycottChina social media campaign). However, in...
Social media manipulation is on the rise in India, particularly that of a political nature. Cataclysmic news events make the perfect foil for storms of bots and hashtag manipulation to exert pressure on political opponents, and the passing of one of...
On February 11, India’s Information and Technology Minister Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad made a speech about the Indian Government’s recent stand-off with Twitter. He stated that while social media platforms were respected for the revenue they bring...
Conspiracy theorists love a catchy and emotive catch phrase, and “love jihad” is no exception. For the uninitiated, love jihad is a far-right conspiracy theory that was first floated by Hindutva groups in the south Indian states of Kerala and...
On September 14, a lawyer named Vibhor Anand published some big “revelations” on his Twitter account. His account is now suspended, but not before Anand told his 87k followers that the Bollywood elite is involved in drug and child trafficking. Anand...
When the Democratic Party’s Presidential Nominee Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris as his running mate, she ticked three key demographic boxes—a woman, with Black and Asian parentage. In her DNC acceptance speech when she spoke of her Tamil mother and...
Former First Lady Michelle Obama, in her keynote speech at the remote Democratic National Convention while talking about the state of the nation under the current administration said that Americans “…watch in horror as children are torn from their...
In his five-part blog series, ‘The Ruckus over the Taj Mahal’, Indian Historian and UCLA professor Vinay Lal writes that “[h]istory as we know it is nothing without the Promethean struggle against myth.” The Taj Mahal, a UN World Heritage site, was...