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THREAD: Our @reporters_co investigation uncovered how ANI leverages copyright to profit from YouTubers. It's a David vs. Goliath scenario: ANI intimidates creators with channel shutdown threats as YouTube stands by, allowing the coercion. 1/n
- Today at the SC hearing on Bihar SIR, ECI has agreed to release the list of 65 lakh deleted. Except there is a catch. The lists will be published booth wise at the district level and not the Bihar election website. ECI said they don’t want “unnecessary consolidation of data”. 1/6
- 1/ We @reporters_co asked the Ministry of Law for all records of the legal advice it has given to Election Commission of India @ECISVEEP on the "Special Intensive Revision" that the latter is undertaking in Bihar for now and in the rest of India, next. Guess what they said?
- 1/Yesterday, @_YogendraYadav drew the Supreme Court's attention to several instances in Bihar of 'houses' with 800 voters from SIR's purified list. @reporters_c presents the 20 largest households on Bihar's final voter rolls along with a litany of other errors. A🧵 @reporters_co
- Replying to @ayushikar1998Regardless of the SC’s decision we will keep digging and we are finding more. Watch this space 6/6
- Replying to @ayushikar1998ECI claims that they are doing so, because will be unable to aggregate the data. This is a blatant lie 2/6
- Replying to @ayushikar1998ECI does not want to publish aggregate lists because increasingly we are finding inconsistencies in their voter rolls that they are trying to obfuscate 4/6
- Replying to @ayushikar1998ECI keeps this data on their central servers and each state gets a window into this database as ECI sees fit. ECI has already published the list of over 7 crore individuals in Bihar’s draft SIR roll on the main state election website of Bihar. 3/6
- Replying to @ayushikar1998A close look at their electoral rolls in Valmikinagar have already given us over 5000 duplicates in the draft SIR roll- reporters-collective.in/trc/5-000-dubi… 5/6
- How do 500 voters cutting across class and caste end up in the same house in rural Bihar? It is the consequence of the erroneous voter list made by Bihar election authorities for this SIR. Read our @reporters_co investigation by @Vishnun30 and I. 1/4
- 1/Investigations by @reporters_co found lakhs of duplicates even after the Special Intensive Revision in Bihar. Yet, CEC Gyanesh Kumar has doubled down on not applying deduplication software during phase 2 of SIR in 12 Indian states.
- 1/In this new @reporters_co investigation we found 1.88 lakh cases of dubious duplicates in in 39 assembly constituencies in Bihar SIR draft rolls. Of these, 16,375 cases raise highest alarm, vote credentials match completely, and addresses are the same or kilometers apart.
- 1/ The Election Commission of India claimed that it had removed 7 lakh duplicate voters from Bihar’s draft SIR roll. In our latest report we find 34,392 close duplicates in draft rolls for just 15 assembly constituencies. Read the report by my @reporters_co colleagues and I.
- 1/Latest report @reporters_co . How the Ministry of Commerce appointed a man with several counts of criminal conspiracy — Prem Chand Garg to promote rice trade. While disgraced businessman climbed the ranks of the ministry, his son’s rice business too flourished in congruence
