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EU Disinfo Lab had released a detailed report, taking help from the investigation first aired on Aaaj Shahzeb Khanzada show — Geo.tv Former prime minister and PTI Chairperson Imran Khan has taken credit for bringing out the European Union Disinformation report, but the fact of the matter is that Geo had exposed the scandal of fake news and fake NGOs operating against Pakistan three years before European Union (EU) non-profit group EU Disinfo Lab released a detailed report, taking help from the investigation first aired on show Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Saath and published in The News and Daily Jang . In an address on Wednesday related to Shahbaz Gill’s arrest and other issues, the former PM claimed that the PTI social media team had the EU Disinfo Lab report. The former PM said: "Not sure if you remember or not that our devoted social media activist exposed the European Union disinformation lab. What was it? There were 800 fake sites in it. These fake sites were involve...

An exterior shot of the FIA headquarters. — Facebook/File An investigation of the malicious social media propaganda following the martyrdom of army officers in the Balochistan helicopter crash has been entrusted to the Federal Investigation Agency. An inquiry was registered at the FIA Cyber Crime Wing, it emerged on Sunday. A joint investigation team headed by Additional Director General Cybercrimes Muhammad Jafar has been formed. The investigation team includes Director Operations Waqar Chauhan, Additional Director Ayaz, and Assistant Director Imran Haider, besides three other officers, sources told Geo News . The development follows Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif characterising the campaign as "horrifying". "The social media campaign belittling and ridiculing the sacrifices of our martyrs was horrifying," he wrote in a message on Twitter. The prime minister attributed such vitriol to "self-righteous political narratives". "They poison the mi...