How Indian Political Party uses an app called Tek Fog, with ShareChat integration, to spread propaganda, target critics on Social Media

The Wire investigates claims behind the use of ‘Tek Fog’, a highly sophisticated app used by online operatives to hijack major social media and encrypted messaging platforms and amplify right-wing propaganda to a domestic audience.

One of the primary functions of the app is to hijack the ‘trending’ section of Twitter and ‘trend’ on Facebook. This process uses the app’s in-built automation features to ‘auto-retweet’ or ‘auto-share’ the tweets and posts of individuals or groups and spam existing hashtag