‘People decide the narrative’: Elon Musk defends X fact-checking Peter Navarro’s anti-India claims; Trump aide called it ‘crap note’

Elon Musk attends a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House (AP) NEW DELHI: Elon Musk on Sunday defended X’s fact-checking system after Peter Navarro, an aide to former US President Donald Trump, criticised the platform for fact-checking his anti-India post. Musk said the platform is committed to […]

‘False villainization’: Hindu American Foundation director speaks up on Peter Navarro’s ‘Brahmin’ attack

Hindu American Foundation director Suhag A Shukla said Peter Navarro’s Brahmin statement was a slur. President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro recently made a snide remark amid the ongoing trade war and said Brahmins are making profits as India continues to buy oil from Russia. A major row broke out over whether he meant […]

The Phantom Economist: Meet Ron Vara – India critic Peter Navarro’s fake China ‘expert’ | World News

On the eve of April Fool’s Day in 1998, New York’s art world raised its glass to a ghost. In a SoHo loft, David Bowie read excerpts from a newly published biography, critics murmured gravely, and the city’s cultural elite toasted the rediscovery of Nat Tate — a tragic abstract expressionist who, the story went, […]

‘Colonial-era trope’: Hindu group flags Peter Navarro’s Brahmin remark; urges Donald Trump to sack him

Peter Navarro (File photo) A Hindu advocacy group, HinduPACT’s American Hindus Against Defamation (AHAD), on Tuesday demanded the dismissal of top US official Peter Navarro from President Donald Trump’s team, condemning his remarks as “inappropriate and Hinduphobic.” The group objected to Navarro’s reference to caste and his “portrayal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a […]

Donald Trump advisor Peter Navarro’s ‘Brahmin profiteering’ remark sparks social media fury | World News

In September 2018, the former CEO of Twitter (as the predecessor of X was then called) Jack Dorsey set the cat among the pigeons when he posed with a group in India holding a sign that read: Smash Brahminical Patriarchy. Vijaya Gadde, the then legal, policy and trust and safety lead of Twitter, had to […]