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This tweet being shared alleging that 11 Muslim Brotherhood people were arrested with 473 mobiles to open 22 accounts to spread malicious news in the context of the protests is using a photo from a December 2018 news article about a mobile phone theft. - See Screenshot #Egypt 
there is even a video...
I have now been blocked from the account that originally shared this piece of misinformation. #Egypt
[#Thread] 1/ This one is on the Egypt protests, or rather the hashtag #ميدان_التحرير I gathered a sample of around 21,000 interactions from around 9,700 unique accounts. Quite a lot of accounts considering they are unique. Obviously there will be much chatter about influence ops
2/ I did my usual analysis first. I examined the account metadata to determine the distribution of account creation dates. What I found was quite astonishing. 1484 of the 9713 unique accounts were created in September 2019. That's 15%!
3/ As you can see from the graph, the spike on the right shows the 1484 accounts created in September. Bear in mind the average number of accounts created per month in this sample is just 66. That's a huge difference! What's perhaps more interesting is that the accounts started
