The Mumbai police have apparently identified over 80,000 fake accounts that were created on various social media platforms after the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput with the intent to ‘discredit’ the city police and the Maharashtra government.
According to the Hindustan Times, the Mumbai police’s cyber unit has compiled a report in which it says social media posts with hashtags like #justiceforsushant and #SSR were uploaded from countries like Italy, Japan, Poland, Slovenia, Indonesia, Turkey, Thailand, Romania and France.
Automated bots are regularly used to inflate traffic surrounding hashtags, a practice aimed at gaming Twitter’s trending topics. ‘Foreign’ accounts are regularly used in this practice, even though the social media giant insists it has preventive measures in place to prevent coordinated campaigns.
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A recent study conducted by the University of Michigan found that members of the BJP played a role in amping up conspiracy theories related to the actor’s death. It looked at social media trends, handles, patterns and the tweets of politicians, influencers, journalists and media houses between June 14 (the day Rajput died) and September 12, and found that members of the BJP and pro-BJP handles cranked up the rumour mill, and were behind the troll attacks on the Mumbai police, the Maharashtra government and many Bollywood actors.
— source thewire.in | 06/Oct/2020
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