Look at how @IAMCouncil co-founder Shaik Ubaid gets a recent college graduate, @pahwa_nitish to write a smear piece on Sri Kulkarni in @slate. It looks a lot like the ones that Ubaid pays Pieter Friedrich to write. Nitish would know that if he did some basic fact checking. 1/n https://twitter.com/ashoswai/status/1320845326694207494

Journalism 101, Tip#1, @pahwa_nitish: check the credibility of the source. Shady political operative @FriedrichPieter has no college degree, no expertise in South Asia, and is paid to attack Hindu candidates by @shaikubaid. 2/n

Tip #2: fact-check your source. @pahwa_nitish didn’t call a single person smeared by Friedrich Pieter. We checked – no one got a call. Not Sri. Not Tulsi, not Bhutada. That’s some sloppy sh-t, Nitish. This passes muster @slate? 3/n

Tip #3: do some *basic* research on your source.
Why does Pieter Friedrich post advertisements in newspapers, but tweets that the newspaper published his "article"? He even cropped out the ad notice at the bottom! That's got to be shady by @slate's standards, right? 4/n

Tip #4 - do some *intermediate* research on your source, summed up in this article.

So you're dealing with a guy who is an anti-Hindu activist with an agenda, & has direct associations to violent Khalistani separatists like Bhajan Singh Bhinder. 5/n https://medium.com/@hinduamerican/why-the-democratic-party-is-bleeding-indian-american-support-93667dcb785f

Tip #5 - do *advanced* research on your source, which involves a little digging in web archives. But I did that work for you in this thread & in his own words. Yes, Friedrich has held racist, homophobic, anti-democratic, & rape-victim shaming views! 6/n https://twitter.com/rajiv_pandit/status/1301379625168371712?s=20