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Sharechat asks The Wire to take down story on the Tek Fog app

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Last updated: 2022/10/19 at 9:51 AM
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Sharechat, a short-video social media platform owned by Bengaluru-based Mohalla Tech Pvt Ltd, has asked independent Indian news organisation The Wire to take down its
January 2022 report on an app called Tek Fog , which it said had been published without any supporting evidence. The report had claimed that Tek Fog enabled the spread of fake news and political propaganda through Sharechat.

This comes after The Wire
had to take down its investigative report on social network Meta about how certain individuals from the ruling party at the Centre had a say in removing content from Meta’s platforms. The report was taken down by The Wire after a strong rebuttal by Meta, which claimed that the report was fake and that the documents furnished by the news outlet were ‘fabricated’.

In a statement, Sharechat said, “We urge The Wire to take down this previous report by Mr Devesh Kumar and others from public consumption, especially given that our severe reservations about the motivations and practices followed by Mr Kumar and others are now shared by many across the world and The Wire team as well,”.

The story by The Wire claimed that Tek Fog, an app built to bypass reCaptcha codes and auto-upload text messages and hashtags to make them trend, was used on Sharechat to test and curate fake news. This, claimed the report, required Tek Fog to collaborate closely with Sharechat.

The statement from Sharechat said that the claims made against it by The Wire were published without seeking the company’s comments. The statement also said that the claims were made ‘without a shred of evidence’.

Sharechat, which supports 14 Indian languages, is currently valued at over $5 billion, after closing a funding round of $520 million in June, which saw investors such as Google and Times Group* participating.

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