Tag: influencers

Foreign social media influencers are being used by the Chinese Communist Party as part of a “global propaganda push” to whitewash human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region, according to a report by an Australian think tank. Chinese state entities invite foreign social media creators on state-backed tours of ...

With Thursday’s suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport, the much feared Taliban, too, found itself the target of terrorist attacks.After the initial euphoria of overthrowing the U.S.-supported government on Aug. 15, the militia group now has to face the music of forming a national government when there are no ...

Flashing an ice-white smile for her 50,000 followers on TikTok, a fresh-faced young woman pops a flavoured nicotine pouch into her mouth, as one of Pakistan’s most popular love songs plays in the background.More than 3,000 miles away, in Sweden, another social media starlet lip-syncs for the camera, to ...

New Delhi: A report titled ‘The Unending War – from Proxy War to Info-War’, launched by Disinfo Lab – an organisation working on disinformation and propaganda warfare, has made a series of striking revelations and exposed the coordinated information warfare jointly launched by West-based Khalistani elements and the Pakistani ...

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: When Jordanian travel vlogger Joe Hattab visited Pakistan for the first time two years ago, he experienced something he never expected to: Unparalleled hospitality that has kept him coming back. The 30-year-old filmmaker runs his own YouTube travel channel, which has over 5.7 million subscribers, mainly from ...

Long before she became headline news in Pakistan, Cynthia Dawn Ritchie was simply a tourist. In 2009, Ritchie, an American woman living in Houston, Texas, took a trip to Karachi, the sprawling megacity in southern Pakistan. At the time, Pakistan was beset by terrorist violence, and the travel advice ...

The US government's push to ban TikTok faced a new legal obstacle on Friday, when a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to postpone the clampdown. The lawsuit was launched by three US video creators — comedian Douglas Marland, musician Alec Chambers, and fashion designer Cosette Rinab —  each ...