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Facebook, Twitter sucked into India-Pakistan information war

By Drazen Jorgic and Alasdair Pal on Apr 3, 2019 12:23AM

Facebook, Twitter sucked into India-Pakistan information war

Internet war embroils global tech giants.

Pakistani social media campaigner Hanzala Tayyab leads about 300 ultra-nationalist cyber warriors fighting an internet war with arch-foe India, in a battle that is increasingly sucking in global tech giants such as Twitter and Facebook. Tayyab, 24, spends his days on Facebook and encrypted ...

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