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[Thread]1/ I found 345 sockpuppet accounts tweeting in Arabic. They follow the familiar pattern of tweeting elongated Arabic hashtags with generic content. You can see some examples below of them posting identical content #platformmanipulation 
2/ All 345 unique accounts have 0 centrality measures. E.g. They all tweet on these hashtags 'spontaneously' without retweeting. Impossible without co-ordination given the unique and esoteric hashtags
3/ Literally all tweets were sent using the same app, Twitter Web App - so zero app diversity. You'll also notice that each tweet contains a random string of characters - again a familiar device used to try and fool Twitter's algorithm into not seeing duplicate tweets.
A new pro-Bolsonaro, pro-Trump follow train hashtag has emerged: #BolsoTrumpTeam. It's being pushed by pretty much the same set of accounts that previously posted #Bolso22Trump24 follow trains, although some have renamed themselves. #PlatformManipulation
cc: @ZellaQuixote
cc: @ZellaQuixote
#BolsoTrumpTeam is (at least) the third Bolsonaro/Trump follow train hashtag pushed by this group of accounts. The accounts all switched to the new hashtag at pretty much the same time, with almost no use of #Bolso22Trump24 after June 1st, 2021.
This table shows the most prolific posters of #BolsoTrumpTeam follow trains. Nine of them have changed their account name since the #Bolso22Trump24 days.
[Big thread on #Saudi-related sock-puppets] 1/
Summary of Findings: I have identified between 1600 - 3900 sock puppet accounts trying to displace a trend critical of Saudi's 2030 Vision
Read on for more details and analysis #disinformation #platformmanipulation
Summary of Findings: I have identified between 1600 - 3900 sock puppet accounts trying to displace a trend critical of Saudi's 2030 Vision
Read on for more details and analysis #disinformation #platformmanipulation
2/ Around 15 March the hashtag "what do we benefit from the Vision ((2030))" was active. In Arabic this reads as #ماذا_استفدنا_من_الرؤية . This trend was critical of the money being spent in pursuit of Saudi's 2030 vision, and critical of MBS. See examples >
3/ Special attention needs to be paid to the first part of this construction "ماذا_" (matha_) which is the Arabic pre-verb question particle 'what'.
There has been increasing trend of using partial hashtags to displace critical ones by using chopped hashtags. See below...
There has been increasing trend of using partial hashtags to displace critical ones by using chopped hashtags. See below...
