DataLEADS (Thread) Fact-checking is a Scam In our previous thread, we exposed the link between USAID - Internews - DataLeads - Sambhaavna Institute and their media training program FactShala We decided to dig more into DataLEADS and we found more shocking A thread 1/20
DataLEADS is a New Delhi based company Their work is related to data intelligence and to train media on fact checking and tackling misinformation They are part of Poynter Institute's IFCN, Facebook fact checking, Google fact checking network
DataLeads was founded by Syed Nazakat in 2014 Sabba Mehmood is Co-Founder and joined in 2019 Before that Nazakat worked with Sahara, Asia News, The Week Magazine While Sabba is a Kashmiri and earlier was associated with Apollo Hospital. She is also associated with WHO
Syed Nazakat is Henry Luce Foundation fellow It's the same Henry Luce Foundation which funded many anti India research We have already exposed this Deep state linked foundation in our previous threads He is also fellow at Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism, Manila
Some of the Anti India research funded by Henry Luce Foundation They also funded Caste Census research
But what makes Nazakat a very powerful person is that he is Board of director of Global Investigative Journalism Network GICN is US based association of Journalists Its the most powerful body of journalists and almost all Journalist bodies are associated with it
Their donors are USAID, Open Society Foundation, Ford Foundation etc You can read our full thread on GIJN here https://x.com/TheChronology__/...
Syed Nazakat is also associated with - US based Center for Investigative Reporting - FORUM SUR L’INFORMATION ET LA DÉMOCRATIE (Funded by NED, Ford Foundation - The New Humanitarian (Funded by Soros, Ford Foundation, Bill Gates Its partner orgs are Al Jazeera, The Guardian etc
Syed Nazakat is a member of International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which receives funding from Open Society Foundation Why we are telling these facts to you all this because he runs the biggest media training program in India specially related to fact-checking
On 1st march 2024 Just 49 days before India's Loksabha elections, Dataleads launched an election fact checking program - Shakti Collective
As per their own data they trained 1700+ journalists to tackle misinformation in Loksabha elections Google was their partner in this program
You name it and they trained it They trained almost entire Indian media under their Program Shakti Collective
Now remember the Loksabha elections How Indi alliance fought entire election on disinformation - BJP will change constitution - BJP will end reservation But no media tried to fact check it but whenever BJP used to make any claim, they immediately used to fact check that
So the question comes where were DataLeads trained Fact checkers ? Or they were trained only to fact check misinformation spread by one side only This radical Islamist org Alt News is associated with Dataleads since their inception Alt News which itself is notorious for
spreading fake news are partner of India's biggest fact checking training group Dataleads Their another partner is Boom Live It has received funding from Lal Family Foundations, which has been funding the Aam Aadmi Party since 2014. Boom Live has been reporting biased news
for a very long time. Examples: a. https://x.com/boomlive_in/stat... b. Fact-checked against the claim of DigiPub being funded by foreign entities. https://www.boomlive.in/fact-c... c. https://x.com/thehawkeyex/stat... d. https://x.com/thehawkeyex/stat...
Google is also their partner Google owns YouTube Remember how fake news were spread by Dhruv Rathi, Ravish Kumar, Ajit Anjum and many Pro Indi Alliance channels and how YouTube algorithm promoted their channels and suppressed Right wing channels
Starting from their funding partner - USAID, George Soros, Ford Foundation to their final products, You will find entire ecosystem is biased in favor of one ideology (Left) and against another ideology (Right) Data doesn't lie But Selective data do
If Mr A lied and Mr B lied But you fact check only B's lie and deliberately ignore A's lie then its not fact checking, Its dishonesty This is the Fact Checking Scam To run a biased narrative on name of fact checking and we saw it in Lok Sabha elections 2024
Remember how any voice who tried to question vaccines were silenced during Covid on name of fact check Syed Nazakat was Member of Google’s COVID-19 Vaccine Counter-Misinformation campaign Remember these golden words of @elonmusk on fact-checkers👇 20/20
