{"id":63816,"date":"2024-05-04T17:30:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T08:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/04\/india-opposition-social-media-chief-arrested-over-doctored-video"},"modified":"2024-05-04T17:30:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T08:30:41","slug":"india-opposition-social-media-chief-arrested-over-doctored-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63816","title":{"rendered":"India opposition social media chief arrested over doctored video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress party\u2019s Arun Reddy held over fake video of interior minister Amit Shah<\/p>\n<p>Indian police have said they have arrested the social media chief of the country\u2019s main opposition party over a doctored video widely shared during the ongoing national election.<\/p>\n<p>Arun Reddy of the Congress party was detained late on Friday in connection with the edited footage, which falsely shows India\u2019s powerful interior minister, Amit Shah, vowing in a campaign speech to end affirmative action policies for millions of poor and low-caste Indians.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/may\/04\/india-opposition-social-media-chief-arrested-over-doctored-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress party\u2019s Arun Reddy held over fake video of interior minister Amit ShahIndian police have said they have arrested the social media chief of the country\u2019s main opposition party over a doctored video widely shared during the ongoing national elec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3057,62,3091,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deepfake","category-india","category-india-elections-2024","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63817,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63816\/revisions\/63817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}