BJP IT Cell
Bharatiya Janata Party Information Technology Cell (commonly known as BJP IT Cell or BJP Social Media Cell) is a department of the Indian political party BJP that manages social media campaigns for the party and its members. Amit Malviya is the incharge of BJP IT Cell from 2015. According to Washington Post, 150,000 social media workers spread posts aimed at exploiting the fears of India’s Hindu majority across a vast network of WhatsApp groups. History 
BJP was the first political party in India to acknowledge and use the power of social media in mobilizing public opinion. The Twitter account for BJP leader Narendra Modi (then Chief Minister of Gujarat) was created in 2009. In contrast the Twitter account of senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was made in 2015. Methods 
BJP orchestrates online campaigns through its social media cell to intimidate perceived government critics. Sadhavi Khosla, a BJP cyber-volunteer in the BJP IT Cell said that the organization disseminated misogyny, Islamophobia and hatred. The network of volunteers of BJP take instructions from BJP IT Cell and two affiliated organisations to troll users who are critical of BJP. Journalists and Indian film actors are also among their targets. In November 2015, a Muslim film actor from India, Aamir Khan expressed concern about rising intolerance in India in response to political events in India that included violent attacks against Muslims and intellectuals, and the absence of swift or strong condemnation from the country's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Modi government. Khosla said that BJP responded with an online campaigns through its social media cell to intimidate Khan. Khan advertised for Snapdeal. Modi supporters bombarded the company with orders and later cancelled them. The campaign led to Snapdeal dropping Khan for its advertisement. Derek O'Brien, a member of Parliament had raised the topic of online hate in Rajya Sabha, India's upper house. He had questioned why Narendra Modi followed cyber-bullies on social media, and said "We are mainstreaming hate". He also asked if Modi administration would issue advisory asking government officials to stop following Twitter users that regularly send abusive messages and obscenities. The government did not respond to this request. In December 2020, Twitter took restrictive action against Amit Malviya, IT Cell in charge, and tagged his post as 'manipulated media'. This was the first time Twitter took restrictive action against an Indian political personality. Malviya had posted an edited video of an incident from 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest that violated Twitter policy towards fighting the spread of doctored media. According to Al Jazeera, during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, the BJP IT Cell was partly responsible for spreading disinformation surrounding the conflict, and said to be a source of Islamophobic and anti-Palestinian content. References

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Bharatiya Janata Party
Fake news in India
Disinformation in India