Sonia Gandhi cites hit job by Al Jazeera in Parliament: How Congress is shoring itself up by building foreign ecosystem

With its domestic ecosystem in shambles, Congress is looking towards leaning on its ‘foreign counterparts’ to redeem itself and yank itself out of political irrelevance. Citing a report published in Al Jazeera a few days back, Gandhi urged the government to put an end to the alleged “systematic interference” of Facebook and other social media giants in India’s electoral politics. The use of foreign media outlets during farmers’ protests, COVID-19 outbreak in India With its political fortunes depleting, the Congress party has not flinched from using western media outlets in their efforts to undermine the democratically elected government and policy decisions undertaken by them. Links with data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, use of bots to boost Twitter metrics of Rahul Gandhi The Congress’ reliance on western media to prop up its failing electoral standing is, however, even older. After the Cambridge Analytica fiasco where it was alleged that user data of millions of Facebook users had been compromised and used for targeted political campaigning, Congress was also found promoting ‘Modi hatao desh bachao’ Facebook As domestic ecosystem buckles under the weight of its own hypocrisy, Congress explores foreign media outlets to revive its own moribund political fortunes The above-mentioned instances highlight the paradigm shift in Congress’ strategy of fostering an alternate ecosystem that would prevent its imminent demise.