UNDERSTANDING NARRATIVE FABRICATION
Media often considered as a pillar of democracy has limitless power.To elaborate this consider a country named Qatar .Having a population of mere 2.3 million it has the highest per ca-pita income .It has major geopolitical influence and all of this is credited to state owned media enterprise Al-Jazeera. Qatar has influenced conflicts through one sided media coverage and the greater expansion of Al-Jazeera has meant that it has been able to influence the views of spectators across the globe.So it is extremely clear that Media can easily create one sided narratives to propagate state opinions .Now across the globe Qatar’s experiment has been seen as a model and more state funded enterprises have been established and expanded.So where does narrative fabrication come into all of this ?.Let us consider a simple example recently Delhi witnessed communal riots .47 people were killed and these consisted individuals of both the religions.However some western media outlets fabricated the narrative that it was a state sponsored massacre against minorities giving a complete spin to the reality.These narratives and misinformation influenced heads of states and even UN general secretary .Now questions arise why media fabricates narratives .The idea is to propagate states political ideology .Like consider Qatar a theocratic Islamic state eyeing greater position in Ummah so do you really expect them to propagate neutral opinions.Similarly for a state like North Korea narratives are the foundation of the extent of loyalty towards the dictatorship in spite of the massive crimes committed against humanity.
UNDERSTANDING THE HYBRID WAR
Technology has transformed dimensions of battlefield from a conventional war to a hybrid war.Today a small media outlet or an unverified account on a social networking website can fabricate a news which could trigger communal violence. Radicalization can be catalyzed through the use of media .One can very easily gather armed mobs through spreading misinformation.Thus the breadth of hybrid warfare is very large and the threat more extensive.This concept is actively being used by many countries to destabilize there nemesis and create internal security problems. Hitler’s propaganda minister Goebbels once said if you repeat a lie consistently it will become truth.Hitler understood the power of misinformation and his usage of media was the foundation of persecution of the Jewish community .
DEBUNKING INDIAN MEDIA
LET ME CONTROL MEDIA AND I WILL TURN ANY NATION INTO A HERD OF PIGS
JOSEPH GOEBBELS
Neutrality is non existent when we talk about Indian media.Either everything is bright or it is extreme dark.Yet the primary focus is towards a section of media which is simply a threat to national security .They hide under the cover of dissent and freedom of speech to propagate seditious narratives to hinder India’s external image and create fault lines.Dissent is welcome in a democracy but sedition is not.Let us understand the threat through illustrations.
On 5th august Indian government took an historic decision of removing the special status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and reorganizing it. Post this decision this section of media came out all guns blazing against the security forces.Fake news was transmitted that Security forces broke into the homes of locals and harassed them .The youth was arrested and tortured and women were raped. All of this was to support the idea propagated by Pakistan across the international community that a “genocide” is happening there.The idea was to isolate India and affect our foreign relations. This section of media has been an active supporter of Self determination of Kashmiris. Similarly victimization of a militant is common trend where the security forces are always blamed as aggressors. According to them there is no Islamic radicalization in the valley and they actively support the Hurriyat.
On 27th November a young veterinary doctor was brutally ravaged by some vermin’s. Few days later when the police took them to the same spot for scene reconstruction they attacked the police and so were killed by the police in an encounter.After the incident there was a burst of joy across the nation and the Hyderabad police very patiently made it clear that every protocol was followed yet this section immediately called this as an fake encounter.They were so shameless that they even took an interview of the mother of the prime accused to create sympathy for him.They called public blood thirsty and termed police as worst than rapists terming them serial killers with legal authority.These bastard have high jacked the judiciary and similar attempts were made in the Nirbhaya Case to make the bloody rapists look as normal humans.
CAB PROTESTS
In a democracy every individual has the right to protest .In context of CAB many people have protested peacefully against it.However this section has been active in spreading large scale misinformation against the bill .The Idea that Muslims will be thrown out has been massively propagated in addition to this more provocative content was published which has lead to widespread violence across the country.The idea is to create communal fault lines to felicitate disintegration of the country.
CONCLUSION
We are engaged in a war against misinformation and this is a serious threat to the stability of the world .Thus it is extremely essential to enhance our technological capabilities so as to develop countering mechanisms.In India’s context it is extremely important to act against anti state elements like the pointed section of media .It is very important to regulate freedom of speech .
Geopolitical Matrix 