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[Thread]1/ This one is on the campaign "Facebook Caliphate", which is a mostly Saudi-led protest against @TawakkolKarman . What was striking about the hashtag is the number of clearly suspicious accounts tweeting on it. Read on for more #disinformation
2/ I downloaded around 17,000 'tweets' (interactions) from around 10,000 unique accounts using the Facebook Caliphate hashtag. Of these, I suspect at least 2,000 are sockpuppets or possibly bot accounts. It is almost certainly co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour #propaganda
3/ Pay attention to this graph. It's interesting. You'll notice something very striking. Firstly, the main cluster at the top. But what is more interesting, are the green stragglers in the bottom left. 2 distinct communities that are somehow separate from the 'main conversation' 
