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[Thread] 1/ Here's one on Instagram (for a change) and #calexit. For those who remember, the other day thousands of Iran-linked accounts were promoting California's secession from the United States. I did a thread on it. I've also analysed a bunch of Instagram accounts...
2/ I downloaded about 8062 posts from Instagram using the hashtag calexit. These ranged from 2017 (when we know Russian trolls farms were active promoting the hashtag) to April 2020. You can see the spikes over the years. It appears to have been most active in Nov2016 & April20
3/ When ranked by the most liked posts, the top three were in Persian. The two most liked posts were by this guy Yasser Jebraili, who appears to be 'Head of the Strategic Evaluation' (forgive the google translation!). The post is about California's homeless and erm, Corona
4/ the second most liked post was also by Yasser Jebraili, where he posts a video of Marcus Ruiz Evans, head of the California legal independence movement. Interestingly, the video in question involves Marcus acknowledging the importance of Russia and Iran in the world stage..
5/ here is the Twitter account of the guy who posted the most liked Tweet. His bio here is in English. He's da chief of the center for strategic assessment of implementing macropolicies of Islamic Republic of Iran ....
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