Daily Round-up| Report: BJP-linked app hijacked social media, messaging platforms and other stories
Channel: Peoples Dispatch
Date: 2022-01-07

In today’s episode of the Daily Round-up we take a look at an investigation by Indian news website The Wire into a secret phone application called Tek Fog which was used to hijack social media trends and ‘inactive’ Whatsapp accounts; a decision by a Tunisian court to pursue charges against 19 opposition leaders for alleged violations during the 2019 elections; the Dutch government’s decision to stop funding to the Palestinian Union of Agricultural Work Committees- one of the six Palestinian rights organizations banned by Israel; and talks between Iran and South Korea for the release of over 7 billion dollars of assets frozen due to U.S. sanctions as the JCPOA talks continue in Vienna.