I don't think he's being disingenuous. OP is transparent they started a campus gossip website inspired by The Social Network.

> I had scraped data for all students at IIT Delhi, and made a profile for all of them.

> anyone could make an anonymous account, and then comment anything on anyone's profile. Each profile also had 4 fields, where you could tag anyone, in the "has dated", "crushing on", "crushed on by" or "haters" category.

I am surprised that OP, having seen that movie and quoting lines from it during his meeting with the administration, didn't see this coming.

> also at one point i literally said the social network dialogue, " I feel like i deserve some recognition from you guys"