GUWAHATI: With the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) intesifying in the whole of the country, the centre led BJP party had begun a campaign asking people to give a missed call to a number to 'register' their support for the controversial law.
However, the campaign strategy took a rather interesting turn, as it later emerged with several Twitter accounts had begun misleading their followers into calling the number on pretexts that callers would get “free Netflix subscription”, connect with job openings or even get in touch with phone sex operators.
According to reports, some of the accounts claimed that they were done only as a “prank”, evidence suggests many are linked to the BJP IT cell.
Meanwhile, Streaming platform Netflix joined in, saying if somebody wanted a free subscription, they should just use another person’s account, “like the rest of us”.