The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) says it has detained two men over the cloning of major news sites, including Bangla Tribune.
“The arrests were made at the capital’s Mohammadpur and Gazipur’s Tongi,” RAB media wing director Mufti Mahmud Khan told Bangla Tribune on Thursday (Nov 29).
“Laptops and cell phones were seized from the arrestees,” the elite force official added.
RAB said that the details will be briefed later of the day.
On Nov 14, Bangla Tribune received a rejoinder on a news report which was never published, when it was found that the content was uploaded on a clone website, “banglatriibune.com” (note the additional “i” in the URL).
The clone site used several contents published by Bangla Tribune with a fake news report on BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami’s election negotiations as the lead news.
On the night of Nov 16, Prothom Alo decried its own clone “prothomaalo.com.”
On Facebook, screenshots of a BBC Bangla clone from the URL “bbc-bangla.com” soon started making the rounds.
All three were registered to the same entity — Privacy Protect LLC, 10 Corporate Drive, Burlington, MA (Massachusetts), US. The phone number used to register the domain was “+1. 802 227 4003” and the e-mail “[email protected].”
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