A Shady Wikipedia user is targeting right-wing Wiki Pages. OpIndia, Swarajya and Vivek Agnihotri top targets

The right-wing ecosystem in India (for the lack of a better word) is often targeted by the traditional status-quoists, who we call leftists and liberals. A glaring example of this specific targeting of the right-wing, apart from Twitter, can be seen on Wikipedia. Wikipedia, as we know, requires basic programming and digital language knowledge for editing, and almost everyone can fidget with Wikipedia pages by choosing to edit the page without even logging in.

Twitter user, and a well-known handle, @attomeybharti (Spaminder Bharti) has now exposed how the Wikipedia nuisance might very well be the doing of one man/woman alone. In a thread, Bharti reveals that there is frequent vandalism of (pages) right-of-centre media outlets and personalities, like Arnab Goswami, Vivek Agnihotri, OpIndia, Swarajya, Jaggi Vasudev etc.

A closer examination of these charges reveals that they indeed carry weight. The Wikipedia page of OpIndia, in the very introduction, says that the website has on multiple occasions spread fake news. Similarly, Arnab Goswami’s page too seems to have been edited by someone with a heavy bias against the star-journalist and aims at undermining Goswami. 

Bharti also discovers the potential culprit behind this digital vandalism. The individual’s current identity on Wikipedia is ‘Winged Blades of Godric’, and his/her previous name was ‘Aruneek’. Upon googling ‘Aruneek Wikipedia’, one comes across a Quora profile by the name ‘Aruneek Biswas’, which describes the individual as an ex-Wikipedia functionary.

An analysis of Aruneek Biswas’ Quora profile makes it very evident that the individual is nothing short of a hard-core leftist. The individual comprehensively defends BarkhaDutt (which explains the Arnab hate), questions the manner in which Afzal Guru’s hanging was decided upon and also has opinions about the mangal sutra being a beacon of patriarchy and male dominance in society. 

Interestingly, the digital footprint of this individual is being removed, in all probability by the individual itself. The Facebook profile has been deleted, education and academic details have been removed from various sites and the Instagram profile too has been turned private. But here’s the thing, the Instagram profile bio of the individual, according to Bharti, has ‘JU’ in it. JU stands for Jadavpur University, and we are all aware about the comrades Jadavpur manufactures in mass quantities. This individual seems to be from the same stock.

It was also observed that, another twitter user- @SavageSorceress shared twitter DM messages screenshot from November 2019 with another Wikipedia user who was also dealing wit talking about the ‘winged’ who is severely engaged in tarnishing the image of right wing portals while polishing leftist portals like TheWire in a positive way.

As mentioned earlier, these status-quoists (leftists) are unable to fathom the basic fact that power no longer lies in their hands, and that new age media is here to break long-held castles, which were previously untouched due to the hegemony of those in control. The challenge which new age media outlets have been posing to the traditional mainstream media has discomforted many, as a result of which they are resorting to these cheap acts of vandalism, both in the digital and real world.