Originally posted by: IamRaj96
Yes i have seen pakistani media as well. They are no less than us when it comes to sensationalizing news reports. On social media, both pakistanis and indians were using each others media's sensationalized and false reports to mock one another.
Our army definitely held a very detailed press conference and provided true evidence but that happened only after the mutual understanding. The first big blow to india on the global stage was CNN’s report claiming that a Rafale jet was shot down, that was the point when many around the world started believing it was true and saw it as a major defeat for india.
Pakistan then began adding more lies, such as claiming they shot down additional jets. International media started reporting on those claims and by the time our army held a press conference to clarify everything, pakistan’s misinformation had already spread worldwide. So even when we shared the truth, much of the global media either ignored it or people didnt believe us. CNN’s false report about a Rafale being shot down by a J10C caused a lot of damage globally, it spread like wildfire. I saw many foreign reports from the eastern sphere discussing how french high tech jet failed against chinese garbage.
So yes, at that time, our government should have officially denied those false claims early on and could have directly contacted CNN with clarifications. But by the time the army presented detailed and factual information, it was already too late, the world had moved on to other issues and not many paid attention. You can clearly see how india staying silent during the initial days of the conflict ended up harming us, even though we actually won against pakistan.
Regarding what you said about social media and the 6-0 meme, yes both indians and pakistanis were mocking each other with memes. The 6-0 and fantastic tea were two of pakistan’s meme weapons against india. Of course, they were spreading lies but they did it for their country, just as indians did for theirs with other memes. In fact, many indian memes gained far more traction than Pakistan’s 6-0 and fantastic tea memes. So overall indians were winning the social media war, we were way ahead of them.
Just check any india-pakistan conflict tweet on X and look at the proportion of indians vs. pakistanis. Even if some pakistani says something against India, you will see how indian users gang up on them. I have seen the same on Insta too.
Coming to china claiming arunachal pradesh, just look at the number of likes on that post. It was only around 4.1k, which isnt a big deal. Random indian social media users get more likes than that on their pakistan related memes.
One more piece of evidence that indians have a much stronger social media presence than pakistanis, there was a pakistani minister who said something about the conflict and a random indian guy mocked him. The indian’s tweet got 18k likes while the pakistani minister’s original tweet barely had 5-6k likes.
So you cant say indians dont have social media presence, they actually have and much more stronger than pakistanis.
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