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ALT Screenshot with the following text: SIGIR Futures Presents **JEDI SEIZE Seize the Means of Retrieval** Today, a handful of large for-profit technology corporations exercise disproportionate power and control over our global information ecosystems. This concentration of power raises serious risks of capture of our platforms and their weaponization for mass surveillance and manipulation of public opinion, and is already being leveraged by both private and public authoritarian actors. These concerns are not hypothetical but grounded in ongoing instances of attempted censorship,1 ideological imposition,2 and information manipulation3 by state actors, as well as by private individuals4, 5 in the backdrop of the technology industry's emerging projects of technofascism.6, 7 It is time for the information access (IA) / information retrieval (IR) communities—the fields of research that has played a significant role in the advancement of information systems such as search engines...
ALT Screenshot with the following text: SIGIR Futures Presents **JEDI SEIZE Seize the Means of Retrieval** Today, a handful of large for-profit technology corporations exercise disproportionate power and control over our global information ecosystems. This concentration of power raises serious risks of capture of our platforms and their weaponization for mass surveillance and manipulation of public opinion, and is already being leveraged by both private and public authoritarian actors. These concerns are not hypothetical but grounded in ongoing instances of attempted censorship,1 ideological imposition,2 and information manipulation3 by state actors, as well as by private individuals4, 5 in the backdrop of the technology industry's emerging projects of technofascism.6, 7 It is time for the information access (IA) / information retrieval (IR) communities—the fields of research that has played a significant role in the advancement of information systems such as search engines...
ALT Black background with a photo a group of Indian men with brown skin, wearing white clothes and hats, holding bright orange flags. The orange or saffron flags are the official symbol of the RSS. Text reads: Canadian charities funding RSS operations.
ALT Black background with white text: BUT FIRST A BIG THANK YOU: This work would not be possible without the input from and collaboration with countless organizations, including the Canadian Forum for Human Rights and Democracy in India, Canadians Against Oppression & Persecution, Hindutva Watch, and the Canadian Council of Indian Muslims. Thank you to each organization listed, and those that have supported in the background. This report uses the invaluable work of Seeing the Sangh, “the world’s first comprehensive map of the organisational affiliates surrounding the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh” which is housed at the Science Po’s Centre for International Studies. It is also publicly available through The Caravan.
ALT Black background with white text: We idetified 21 Canadian charities which fit under the umbrella of 11 ORGANIZATIONS which we categorized into three tiers, based on their ties to the RSS. 1 Core Sangh, 2 Sangh embedded, 3 Sangh allies. A diagram in the centre shows how $46 million CAD is moving between RSS affilated organizations in Canada and another $21.5 million is moving from Canada to international RSS-affiliated orgs. Two quotes from the report at the bottom read: "RSS’s sophisticated and opaque transnational network of organizations operates worldwide and harvest funds under the guise of charitable donations, while evading accountability." and "RSS is the ‘the largest far-right network in history.’"
ALT Black background with white, orange and green text, and quote bubbles. Text reads: Learn more tr.ee/RSS and email the CRA tr.ee/RSS-stop. Quote 1: Canadian tax dollars shouldn’t be used to fund violent supremacist groups and causes abroad. If Canadian nonprofits are sending money to Hindu nationalist groups in India, the CRA needs to look closely at where that money is going and what it is funding. Any serious violations of Canada’s charity laws should be thoroughly investigated. - Hindutva Watch Quote 2: The concerns raised by numerous international human rights organizations deserve serious scrutiny, as they’ve documented discrimination, violence, and restrictions affecting religious minorities in India. - – Canadian Against Oppression and Persecution
