{"id":1001990,"date":"2026-04-09T09:20:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001990"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:30:18","slug":"fake-derogatory-posts-target-congress-leaders-in-davanagere-complaints-filed-as-poll-campaign-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/09\/fake-derogatory-posts-target-congress-leaders-in-davanagere-complaints-filed-as-poll-campaign-heats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake, derogatory posts target Congress leaders in Davanagere, complaints filed as poll campaign heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAVANGERE: Controversial and fake messages are being spread about Congress candidate Samarth Shamanur, MP Dr Prabha Mallikarjun and district in-charge minister SS Mallikarjun on various social media sites. <\/p>\n<p>In a complaint filed with Deputy Commissioner Gangadharaswamy GM, Congress Social Media Committee General Secretary H Mallikarjun Vandali alleged that Facebook IDs Karnataka Hindus, Postcard channel founder Mahesh Vikram Hegde, Swabhimani Davanagere, Young India and Ahinda Janavada &#8212; have been sharing derogatory messages against the three and demanded criminal action against them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVANGERE: Controversial and fake messages are being spread about Congress candidate Samarth Shamanur, MP Dr Prabha Mallikarjun and district in-charge minister SS Mallikarjun on various social media sites. In a complaint filed with Deputy Commissioner Gangadharaswamy GM, Congress Social Media Committee General Secretary H Mallikarjun Vandali alleged that Facebook IDs Karnataka Hindus, Postcard channel founder Mahesh Vikram Hegde, Swabhimani Davanagere, Young India and Ahinda Janavada &#8212; have been sharing derogatory messages against the three and demanded criminal action against them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}