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Aug 15, 2020 8 tweets 3 min read
1/ In continuation to the previous thread, I further gathered data of 139 FB pages from Jan 2016 till Aug 2020 that push out coordinated disinformation on Kashmir. Out of these 139 pages, only 32 were active in 2016 generating 3,450,417 interactions and 163,785 page likes. 2/ The 2016 figures were the result of 5,850 photos, 1,407 links and 214 status updates posted by these 32 pages. In contrast, from Jan 2020 to August 14, 2020, the number of such pages swelled to 139 and included 49,681 photos, 18,731 links and 47, 422 status updates.
Aug 3, 2020 10 tweets 4 min read
1/ For the past one year I've been working on identifying coordinated inauthentic behavior exhibited by FB pages posting content about Kashmir specifically & India in general. Data has been generated from 103 FB pages. The timeline analyzed is from July 1, 2019 to August 3, 2020 2/ The total likes for these pages as on August 3, 2020 is approx. 5.49 million with an estimated growth rate of +135.82%. None of these pages have run any ads since their creation. In July 2019 the total page likes were around 2.33 million. After the revocation of Article 370...