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• They are seeking the arrest of the Wrestling Federation of India’s president, Brij Bhushan Singh, who is facing allegations that he sexually harassed athletes.
• However, far-right Hindu nationalists loyal to the government and its Hindutva ideology have attempted to bully and discredit the protesters.

Digital propaganda

• A big part of that effort involves using digital propaganda like memes, disinformation campaigns and digitally altered content.
• Similarly to the 2020-2021 farmers’ movement, the wrestlers’ protest is facing rampant demonization on social media.
• The wrestlers have even been accused of being linked to the Khalistanis, a banned Sikh separatist movement in India.

Online counter-speech

• It usually involves polite and non-aggressive responses, sharing fact-checked information and exposing the logical inconsistencies of messages shared online.
• Social movements face online propaganda campaigns, use of political bots, monitoring through spyware like Pegasus and even internet shutdowns.
• But most protest movements do not have this marginal advantage in online spaces.

Challenging propaganda

• To support counter-speech that can challenge the propaganda of governments, experts and academics need to rethink how efforts like digital media literacy programs and fact-checking can effectively respond.
• A proposed amendment to the country’s internet rules would give the government more power to police online content.
• In order to combat propaganda and disinformation, it is crucial to support democratically owned businesses like platform co-operatives, independent journalism and develop public service media and internet platforms that value truth and transparency and treat people like citizens, not consumers.

• RAN intelligent controller is a software solution that optimizes baseband communication functions on the Radio Access Network (RAN).
• Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic led to high mobile internet traffic, increasing the need to manage it efficiently and boosting the adoption of RAN intelligent controller solutions.
• RAN intelligent controller improves business agility, reduces operational and infrastructure costs, and improves network performance.
• RAN intelligent controller has applications such as traffic steering, Radio Access Network (RAN) sharing, and Quality of Service (QoS)-based resource optimization.

• Keysight will present the following demonstrations:
  Build a Better Battery – Showcases the Keysight Scienlab Energy Storage Discover (ESD) battery test solution supporting the entire R&D process and the Keysight PathWave Lab Operations battery test software optimizing test lab operations.
• Test the EV Future – Demonstrates the Keysight Scienlab Charging Discovery System (CDS) testing charging interfaces of EVs and EV supply equipment (EVSE) during high-power charging — up to 1,500 V DC and ±600 A DC.
• Lidar Target Simulation – Demonstrates the new Keysight Lidar Target Simulator performing target simulation at near and far distances with different reflectivity in a small footprint.
• Validate Vehicle Networks – Highlights Keysight’s in-vehicle network validation solution testing waveform, linearity, and jitter of high-speed transmit compliance of 10GBASE-T1 equipment.

• Compucom, a leading managed IT services provider, announced Scott Ward will rejoin the company as its Chief Business Officer leading partner alliances and professional services.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230605005119/en/
  Scott Ward Returns to Compucom, Named Chief Business Officer (Photo: Business Wire)
  Ward previously spent more than two decades at Compucom where he cultivated strong relationships with its customers and was consistently a top performing sales executive before assuming the role of senior vice president of sales.
• “I’m pleased to come back to a company I called home for more than 25 years,” Ward said.
• “I enjoy building, growing and leading high-performance teams to excel in any market.