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CNN has named and shamed a list of brands that haven't joined a movement to boycott Facebook for all manner of alleged social justice offenses, drawing criticism online for its "bizarre" activism campaign.

'Companies do nothing' is not a news story, yet that's exactly what CNN reported on Wednesday. After a slew of major brands - including Unilever, Adidas, Ford, Volkswagen, Microsoft, and Levi Strauss - temporarily pulled their advertising from Facebook, CNN called out a list of firms that have yet to fall in line with their counterparts, implicitly calling on them to do so.

According to the report, only three of the largest spenders on Facebook ads last year have joined the protest. The list of those who haven't includes Walmart, Home Depot, Uber, Netflix and American Express, and CNN shook down their spokespeople for comment. Some ignored the call; others, like Home Depot, said they were watching the boycott movement "closely."

In calling these firms out, CNN is doing the work of the Stop Hate For Profit campaign. Organized by the Anti-Defamation League, NAACP, Southern Poverty Law Center and others, the campaign wants businesses to "hit pause on hate" and pull their advertising from Facebook for the month of July.

Facebook's alleged offenses are laid out on the campaign's website, and include charges as innocuous as its listing of right-wing news site Breitbart as a "trusted news source," right up to accusations of "blatant voter suppression" and "promoting hate, bigotry, racism, antisemitism and violence."

In response, the campaign wants Facebook to submit to "identity-based hate" audits, root out and remove everything from "Holocaust denialism" to "climate denialism," use AI to spot hateful discussion in private groups, and remove "misinformation relating to voting."

Pundits and commentators on Twitter slaughtered CNN for its apparent PR work for the campaign.

"A news outlet joining a political pressure campaign like this is bizarre," wrote Republican adviser Matt Whitlock. "It's activism, not journalism."

CNN's activist push on behalf of the boycott campaign is that much more baffling given that Facebook actually bent the knee last week and agreed to censor "hate or anything that incites violence or suppresses voting."

This apparently includes advertising critical of "immigrants, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers" - basically, a major plank of President Donald Trump's platform - according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

CNN itself didn't spend a single dollar on Facebook advertisements in the last week of June. However, the news outlet has spent nearly $400,000 on Facebook ads since May 2018. Presumably, the network will now cease its own ad campaign entirely. CNN's parent company, WarnerMedia, has also not joined the boycott, and made no public comment on any future plans to do so.

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The aftermath of the war saw sweeping changes in the Indian military to prepare it for similar conflicts in the future, and placed pressure on Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, who was seen as responsible for failing to anticipate the Chinese attack on India. Indians reacted with a surge in patriotism and memorials were erected for many of the Indian troops who died in the war. Arguably, the main lesson India learned from the war was the need to strengthen its own defences and a shift from Nehru's foreign policy with China based on his stated concept of "brotherhood". Because of India's inability to anticipate Chinese aggression, Prime Minister Nehru faced harsh criticism from government officials, for having promoted pacifist relations with China. Indian President Radhakrishnan said that Nehru's government was naive and negligent about preparations, and Nehru admitted his failings.
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The unpreparedness of the army was blamed on Defence Minister Menon, who resigned his government post to allow for someone who might modernise India's military further. India's policy of weaponisation via indigenous sources and self-sufficiency was thus cemented. Sensing a weakened army, Pakistan, a close ally of China, began a policy of provocation against India by infiltrating Jammu and Kashmir and ultimately triggering the Second Kashmir War with India in 1965 and Indo-Pakistani war of 1971. The Attack of 1965 was successfully stopped and ceasefire was negotiated under international pressure. In the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 India won a clear victory, resulting in liberation of Bangladesh (formerly East-Pakistan)

Insisting that India carried out a "digital strike" to protect the data of countrymen, Prasad sought to know why the TMC was opposing the ban on Chinese apps.

"We are witnessing a strange trend in Bengal; the ruling TMC had earlier asked why we were not banning the apps, now they want to know why we are banning the apps. This is strange, why can't they stand with the government at the time of crisis," he said.

Trinamool Congress MP had on Wednesday termed the Centre's decision to ban 59 Chinese apps including TikTok an "eyewash and an impulsive decision", and said the Union government should substitute them with Indian apps as the livelihood of many people associated with these applications had been affected.