Influencers claim they were pitched scripted anti-AI Summit content

New Delhi: A fresh political and creator economy flashpoint has erupted online days after the shirtless Youth Congress protest inside Bharat Mandapam on February 20, with multiple posts on X alleging that Instagram creators were offered money to run scripted negative content against the AI Summit.

Over February 25–26, several creators posted screenshots and videos claiming they received WhatsApp messages offering cash to publish reels and Stories criticising the summit. 

*Understand the Sinister, Shirtless and Shameless Anti India (AI) Plot* of Congress

🚨How Congress was giving money to create fake narratives to harm India’s image !

🚨Were negative stories planted and amplified against AI Summit by Congress to hurt India’s prospects?

Facts… https://t.co/grioPMeVWX

— Shehzad Jai Hind (Modi Ka Parivar) (@Shehzad_Ind) February 26, 2026

The alleged pitches, as shared by creators and amplified on X, offered payments in the range of Rs 10,000 to Rs 25,000 per reel for a pre-written narrative that branded the AI Summit “useless” and alleged public money was benefiting “Ambani–Adani”.

BuzzInContent.com reviewed the primary X posts, threads, videos and linked posts circulating with these claims.

One widely shared February 25 post described a “big expose” and said multiple influencers had been approached in a similar pattern. It included a three-video compilation featuring WhatsApp chat screenshots and creator voiceovers, and showed over 1.6 lakh views at the time of capture.

On February 26, BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla also weighed in, linking the Bharat Mandapam protest and the alleged influencer outreach to what he called a “paid” narrative exercise. He posted a clip from a television debate and asked whether negative stories were being planted and amplified against the summit.

Among the posts circulating alongside the compilation were screenshots attributed to creator Vinayak Dev Trivedi. The screenshots show a contact saved as “Youth Congress Media Relations” offering up to Rs 25,000 for a reel and suggesting lines that attack the summit and the government.

🚨BIG EXPOSE: MANY Influencers have now come forward exposing the same pattern:

Youth Congress Media Relations allegedly offering ₹10K–₹25K per Reel to push a scripted narrative that the AI Summit is “useless” and that funds are lining “Ambani–Adani pockets.”

This wasn’t… pic.twitter.com/ZrX8r5Alsd

— BALA (@erbmjha) February 25, 2026

Youth Congress Media Relations messaged this influencer to make content that showed the "AI Summit was of no use to the country & Modi is wasting money".

Budget = 25k for a reel.

Congress is India's biggest inside enemy!! pic.twitter.com/pTiF2WQRWp

— 🦋Anjna🦋 (@SaffronQueen_) February 25, 2026

Other creators named across the posts included Charmingchaoss and Preeti Bhati, who also posted videos claiming they received similar messages and scripts. Posts also repeated the names Dev Vedik and Anushka as having received comparable pitches, with some users claiming higher payouts for bigger accounts.

Across multiple screenshots shared on X, the talking points appeared similar: “AI Summit = waste of public money” and “only benefits Ambani–Adani”, along with hashtags such as #AISummitScam and #ModiFail. Several creators said they refused the pitches and were posting the messages to expose the outreach.

BuzzinContent has not independently verified the authenticity of the WhatsApp screenshots or the identity of the sender behind the number shown in the chats. Instagram does not provide a public mechanism to confirm whether any of the claimed offers translated into paid posts.

BuzzinContent will update this report if any creator issues an on-record rebuttal with supporting proof, if the Youth Congress or Congress responds directly to the WhatsApp claims, or if law enforcement publicly links the allegations to any complaint filed after the Bharat Mandapam protest.