Chinese mobile app ‘REDNOTE’ luring Northeast residents with anti-India content, centre mulls ban

NEW DELHI: Giving a new dimension to information warfare, intelligence agencies have found that China is resorting to plot against India’s northeast by using a mobile app – REDNOTE – which lures users with money and other benefits to share and spread anti-national contents, sources said on Sunday.

The residents of several north-eastern states, including those from Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Assam, are on the app’s radar. Following a report from the intelligence agencies, the government is considering a ban on the online application.