Fake Social Media Accounts Set Up In RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan’s Name

New York: Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan is not on social media, except for a LinkedIn account, but fake Twitter accounts have been set up with his name, according to a spokesperson for his current academic institution, the Chicago University’s Booth School of Business. Asked about some political statements attributed to him on social media, Sandra Jones, the school’s senior associate director for media relations, replied in an email: “There are some false Twitter accounts with his name, but they are not him.”

During the election campaign in India and afterward, social media was rife with statements falsely attributed to him, many of them critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and supportive of Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi. “They are fake,” Jones said of social media accounts claiming to be that of Rajan, who became the school’s Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance after leaving the RBI in 2016.

When asked by the media about what the new Modi government should do, Rajan wrote on LinkedIn: “I can do no better than refer to a book that a group of us economists published recently entitled ‘What the Economy Needs Now’.” He also posted an op-ed he and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Economics Professor Abhijit Banerjee wrote for The Times of India, which he said highlighted the recommendations. (IANS)

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