“Some of the YouTube channels of the NPG were being operated by anchors of Pakistani news channels,” it added. Their videos have had over 550 million views, the ministry said. “The channels were used to post divisive content in a coordinated manner on topics like Kashmir, Indian Army, minority communities in India, Ram Mandir, (the late CDS) General Bipin Rawat, etc,” the ministry said in a statement.Īmong the 20 YouTube channels ordered to be blocked are those launched by The Naya Pakistan Group (NPG), operating from Pakistan, which has a network of YouTube channels and a combined subscriber base of at least 3.5 million. The two separate orders for the channels and website were the first to be issued by the ministry under the new information technology rules notified on February 25 this year.Īccording to the ministry, they were issued in a “coordinated effort with intelligence agencies”. The ministry of information and broadcasting (I&B) on Tuesday said it has ordered the blocking of two Kashmir-related websites and 20 YouTube channels as they “belong to a coordinated disinformation network operating from Pakistan”.
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