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"That all changed with the rise of MBS. Saudi Twitter gradually morphed into a propaganda platform, with the government deploying trolls and pressuring influencers to amplify its messages." by @oamaz7 washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
@oamaz7 "More than 30 influencers told me that the Saudi government blackmailed them with material obtained by hacking their phones. They were given two options: Tweet propaganda or have your private content, including pictures, released on Twitter."
@oamaz7 "In 2013, Jamal posted: “Someday Twitter will win a Nobel prize.” But now we see it’s slipping into darkness. Will Twitter take measures to protect our public square? Right now I’m worried, but I will continue to fight for free expression, at least online."
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[Thread] 1/ Mike Pompeo tweeted on the 21st November a request in Farsi for Iranian protesters to send in videos of the regime's crackdown in order to 'expose' and 'sanction' the abuses. Both tweets, including the translation got a lot of retweets, but by whom?
2/ Firstly Pompeo tends to save his foreign language licks for Farsi. Despite supporting other protests around the world - Lebanon and Venezuela for example - the US regime seems to have a special place in its heart for Iran, no doubt due to its Middle East Policy - support for
3/ Saudi and Israel. The number of retweets achieved by Pompeo for these tweets was higher than his average - about 4k and 5.5k for each tweet. Apart from the novelty value of him tweeting in Farsi again, and the request for info, it seems somewhat anomalous
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[Thread] 1/ Most top trends in Saudi and other Arabic countries have been spammed consistently by Islamic State propaganda. The volume, although it variable, is huge. In my layover in Montreal I analysed 2,464 tweets on the trending hashtag "قبلً الحلم18" to see the damage
2/ Around 850 of the tweets on this hashtag were produced within an hour by 24 different accounts. The most prolific produced around 131 tweets in that hour. They all use the app @IFTTT and all just post grisly propaganda videos with a tweet full of hashtags
@IFTTT 3/ So that's around a third of the sample that are pro Islamic State tweets. Bear in mind that's happening across multiple hashtags. Whoever is looking at those hashtags will be seeing Islamic State propaganda. This two minute video screenshotted below has 8,300 views. If those
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[Thread] 1/ This one's about how many Twitter accounts have been verified since they suspended their public verification in February 2018. Many of you know my thoughts on verification, I believe a robust verification system will really curb platform manipulation.
2/ I can determine that at least 8,124 accounts were verified since between 27 February 2018 and October 1st 2019. I say "at least" because I am only able to analyse those accounts that were both verified and created after February 27th 2018. I don't have a 'verified since'
3/ field in my metadata. Below you can see that the amount of verified accounts appears to have been declining leading up to September 2019. This indicates perhaps a general phasing out even of private, behind the scenes, verification
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