Stop Funding Hate: Foreign org wants to influence Indian media

A lot has been said in recent years about ‘foreign election interference’. The Campaign Against OpIndia orchestrated by Stop Funding Hate One such organisation that has come to our notice in recent times is ‘Stop Funding Hate’. Stop Funding Hate isn’t too fond of Republic TV either and appears to be encouraging those who wish to bully those who show their A lively debate going on at @RedditIndia following reports that Renault have pulled their advertising from Republic TV amid concerns over anti-Muslim coverage: https://t.co/57WDW4mdu1 pic.twitter.com/Ts6DF9JsCB — Stop Funding Hate May 26, 2020 The global criticism of Stop Funding Hate SFH has tried its bullying tactic in the UK as well, against newspapers such as The Sun, Daily Mail and the Daily Express. Dominic Ponsford, writing for the Press gazette, said, “The Stop Funding Hate campaign strikes me as an illiberal way to set about achieving the liberal objective of less negative press coverage around immigration.” Ponsford added, “Those seeking to silence the Daily Mail should perhaps also remember that in addition to its hard line stance on immigration, it has successfully campaigned to get justice for Stephen Lawrence, ban free supermarket plastic bags and to get the last UK Guantanama Bay inmate, Shaker Aamer, freed.” Naomi Firsht said that the entire campaign was about press censorship. When the Daily Mail called the Judges who gave a verdict that went against Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was pushing for a Brexit then, the ‘Enemies of the People’, Stop Funding Hate tweeted a photograph of the front page to the government as well as the advertisers calling for them to boycott, Naomi Firsht reported.