G5iO #AfghanLeaks| Disinformation & Propaganda Campaign to Sabotage Afghan Peace Process
As a flagship study, G5iO undertook data analytics to deconstruct coordinated disinformation & Info-Ops being undertaken by both India & Afghanistan to derail Afghan Peace Process [Thread]
•US announced a final withdrawal date
•The Taliban gained military victories
•Twitter data was scraped from May 2020 – Aug 2021
•The data indicated key narratives, networks and user accounts running disinformation operations
•Artificial activity was defined as any activity from accounts engaged in platform manipulation, recently created and pushing inorganic content
Key narratives indicate coordinated disinformation campaign led by India & Afghanistan targeting Pakistan Army, fanning ethnic nationalism, spreading fake news over FATF, & blaming Pakistan for the current crisis in Afghanistan
The data visualized through a timeline maps how the targeted campaign against Pakistan has been carefully choreographed & timed to sabotage & discredit Pakistan's efforts for peace in Afghanistan.
It also shows attempts to destabilize Pakistan through fake news
The following highlights how most of these campaigns comprised:
• Of known state-linked accounts
• Of a considerable level of artificial activity
The following hashtags & tweets present just a glimpse of the kind of content & narratives being pushed by both Indian & Afghan sponsored content mills.
•Used since 2016 by Indian backed propaganda accounts.
•Since June 2021, used as part of a coordinated propaganda campaign by the Afghan government
•Used more aggressively by India & Afg since US withdrawal
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... other sources who have been trying to shine on light on this grifter (as I have tried to do, time and again:
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19 to 80 is an over 300% difference.
Tweet: https://t.co/36FnYnsRT9
Example #2 - "Yes, I'm comparing the Noridcs / No, you cannot compare the Nordics."
I wonder why...
Tweets: https://t.co/XLfoX4rpck / https://t.co/vjE1ctLU5x
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Tweets: https://t.co/vcDpTu3qyj / https://t.co/CA3N6hC2Lq