‘Adani Watch’: How Australian NGO-backed portal is collaborating in anti-India propaganda

On Thursday (April 6), ‘Adani Watch’ courted controversy after it falsely claimed {{that a}} Chinese agency, supposedly associated to Indian industrialist Gautam Adani, is establishing important infrastructure initiatives inside the nation.

The propaganda portal mistook a Taiwanese particular person named Chang Chien-Ting for a Chinese nationwide and went on to say that his alleged agency (PMC Projects (India) Pvt Ltd) is establishing ports, electrical power traces and railway tracks in India.

The disinformation was then further amplified by Congress scion Rahul Gandhi to assault Adani and strong aspersions on the integrity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The most excellent Indian opposition decide takes up #AdaniWatch concerns a few Chinese agency’s involvement in Adani’s important infrastructure initiatives. @RahulGandhi https://t.co/ExyDifV28r

— Bob Brown Foundation (@BobBrownFndn) April 6, 2023

As per the website online of ‘Adani Watch,’ it is a enterprise run by the Australia-based Bob Brown Foundation. Interestingly, the charitable organisation was prepare by former Australian Greens politician Bob Brown with the goal to save lots of plenty of the biosphere and defend the ecology.

While championing the rationale for the ‘environment’ in Australia, the Foundation turned its gaze in course of India. And since then, it has been fixated on Gautam Adani and the whole thing that goes in direction of the incumbent political dispensation on the Centre.

Popular OSINT Twitter cope with, The Hawk Eye, recognized that Adani Watch’s vicious articles normally are usually not merely restricted to the Indian industrialist nevertheless sometimes lengthen into the political space. “What an Australian NGO has to take if Ravish Kumar left NDTV?” it inquired in February this 12 months.

And why an environmentalist NGO would endorse a tweet on BBC Documentary? What’s the true motive?

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— The Hawk Eye (@thehawkeyex) February 2, 2023

Interestingly, Bob Brown Foundation endorses even the propaganda-laden documentary by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on Prime Minister Narendra. This is despite the fact that it has nothing to do with Gautam Adani or the setting.

“In this age of rapid destruction of the biosphere, attended by cynicism and pessimism, our foundation will use ecological reality and optimism to promote real environmental wins,” reads the mission assertion.

In March 2022, the Bob Brown Foundation was moreover seen batting for Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra after she had submitted a correct criticism to SEBI in direction of the Adani Group.

The Hawk Eye moreover highlighted how ‘Adani Watch’ is lenient about infrastructure initiatives of Gautam Adani in non-BJP dominated States. “The narrative is Adani is moving into these states to get away from “Modi-favored” image,” it emphasised.

Most of the misleading gadgets on the propaganda portal are written by leftist ‘journalist’ Ravi Nair, who moreover occurred to jot down a malicious article a few Chinese agency establishing India’s key infrastructure initiatives.

Collecting all such info at deep down diploma should not be doable with native agent.

NewsClick journo Ravi Nair is a contributor to AdaniWatch. His practically every submit is being endorsed by BBF twitter cope with.

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— The Hawk Eye (@thehawkeyex) February 2, 2023

As such, the Twitter cope with of the Bob Brown Foundation retweets practically every tweet, which is posted by Ravi Nair. Another group named ‘Stop Adani’, supported by the an identical Foundation, moreover repeatedly endorses the tweets of the leftist ‘journalist.’

27. This propaganda Stop Adani group is consistently retweeting Ravi Nair’s tweets. Who is Ravi Nair?
He writes for The Wire, Newsclick, and Janta ka reporter.
All of these are part of Digipub. pic.twitter.com/mpEfp6LCqE

— Vijay Patel🇮🇳 (@vijaygajera) February 2, 2023

In its 2017 annual report, the ‘Stop Adani’ group thanked former Australian Greens politician Bob Brown for conducting key conferences and speaking at events such as a result of the ‘Stop Adani summit’ in Sydney and a ‘Stop Adani rally’ in Hobart.

Through his Foundation, he moreover manufactured and distributed 5,000 Stop Adani bumper stickers all through Australia free of value.

The advertising marketing campaign was launched in 2017. They maintain an identical propaganda website online stopadani(.) com.

If you might need gone by means of @vijaygajera thread, it’s possible you’ll want already found about their native amplifiers.

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— The Hawk Eye (@thehawkeyex) February 2, 2023

According to neutral journalist Vijay Patel, the ‘Stop Adani’ group works in a coordinated pattern, an identical to the ‘Adani Watch’ enterprise.

The group had shared politically motivated tweets by the likes of ‘activist’ Prashant Bhushan, The Wire, Hindenburg Research, uncertain fact-checker Mohammed Zubair and Congress chief Jairam Ramesh.

26. Few further retweets by the Stop Adani propaganda group. pic.twitter.com/ALHLQbvLf8

— Vijay Patel🇮🇳 (@vijaygajera) February 2, 2023

In September 2020, an tutorial named Dr Jennifer Sanger revealed a flawed scientific paper on Australian bushfires, which she in the end wanted to retract. It later obtained right here to light that she was a campaigner for Bob Brown Foundation.

In April 2021, Tasmanian Resources Minister Guy Barnett wrote to the Assistant Treasurer of Australia, Michael Sukkar, urging him to de-recognise Bob Brown Foundation as a ‘charity.’

The Foundation had reportedly violated the Australian Charities Act of 2013 by asking people to ‘vote the Greens’, a political social gathering which Bob Brown represented between 1989 and 2012. In November ultimate 12 months, he was arrested for protesting in direction of logging in Tasmania.

The specializing in of the Adani group, alongside the BJP authorities on the Centre, clearly displays that the Australia-based Foundation is working in course of objectives that are a far cry from its mission assertion.