With Soros-linked funding backing ICG and his past criticism of India, the presence of former top Indian officials on its board and their public positions raise broader questions about alignment and influence.
Clearly, there is a coordinated echo chamber that has been recycling the same old, and most importantly, debunked anti-Hindu propaganda to whitewash Islamist extremism and violence. These attempts to delegitimise OpIndia’s exposure of anti-Hindu violence in Leicester, by recycling the same tropes have been ongoing since 2022.
When taken as a whole, this demonstrates a model. Western governments finance media outlets via middlemen like RSF and CFI, then sponsor content and "capacity building" for journalists whose work supports a specific interpretation of the conflict, typically one in which the targeted government is an inhumane authoritarian and Western-backed opposition forces are democrats.
Dhanya Rajendran’s RSF nomination, coming weeks after her outlet’s Dharmasthala hoax, exposes how Soros-linked media networks reward propaganda that maligns Hindu institutions under the guise of “press freedom.”
On 14th October, the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia informed that Ashley Tellis has been arrested on charge of “unlawfully retaining classified national defence information”. Tellis was arrested on 11th October after the US authorities searched his residence in Vienna, Virginia.
As Bihar elections approach, the familiar nexus of ADR, Soros-linked networks, activist-lawyers, and the Mahagathbandhan are busy orchestrating a manufactured crisis and weaponising disinformation to delegitimise India’s electoral institutions.