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[Thread] 1/ For those interested in #HateSpeech and @Twitter, this thread is for you. There have been numerous campaigns targeting the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan. A recent one involves the hashtag "Ahmadis are not Muslims" - in English. This will be mostly an analysis of
2/ the main people involved in propagating this dangerous idea. For information and context on Pakistan's media eco system and politics I encourage you to direct questions to some great journalists @desmukh @ramshajahangir @sarahatiq
3/ I analysed about 18,000 tweets from the "Ahmadis Are Not Muslims" Hashtag. The sample included around 8245 unique Twitter accounts. Some of the most active users of the hashtags who seemed to condone its message are screenshotted below. No. 1 was zahid_tweets #HateSpeech
4/ If we resize nodes to in-degree we can get an idea of who got retweeted the most, or received the most replies and mentions (good way of telling who is being targeted or retweeted ). In this case, @SoomroOfficial2 seems to get a lot of traffic, as does @Abdulla22885882
5/ I found @Abdulla22885882 's account quite odd as it only has four tweets, but one of those tweets was RT'd 341 times. Also, for someone's who bio says 'take it essey' he seems pretty worked up by the Ahmadis. The other account, @SoomroOfficial2 has a link to a pro Jamiat
6/ Ulema-e Islam account. There are verified accounts spreading this hate speech. One of the most retweeted is @ZaqaWakar - a tech influencer according to his bio. He rather disturbingly said let's make Ahmadis are Kaffir "go viral". Seems like a nice guy. #Pakistan
7/ If we colour the edges by tweet type (e.g. is it a retweet, mention, reply, mention in retweet etc) we can see that the majority of the hashtag (62%) are RTs. 17% are tweets, and 13% are mentions in retweets.
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