Fake Twitter Accounts Against Pakistan Revealed

The trend of #SanctionPakistan or (ban on Pakistani) was run against Pakistan by using 80% fake accounts on Twitter which has been revealed in a recent research report by a research company, The Viewlytics.

According to the research, this trend started in June 2021 with 4 fake accounts, which was followed by 23 fake accounts. However, from August 1 to August 8, around 200,000 tweets were made, after which the reality of this Twitter trend was exposed.

The report reveals that the hashtag “#SanctionPakistan” first appeared on June 30, 2021, in which 23 tweets were made in 1 hour using 4 fake accounts and in July 2021, an average of 400 tweets and retweets appeared.

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However, when the desired results were not achieved, efforts were made in August to further trend this hashtag and, to do so, fake profiles were used extensively.

In addition, 10,000 tweets, retweets and replies were received from August 1 to August 8, while more than 200,000 tweets, retweets and replies appeared on August 9, and this trend began to show in Pakistan, India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). When you look at the top 20 Twitter profiles that have the most proliferation of this hashtag, it turns out that 80% of them were fake. Within these accounts came the same 4 profiles that used this hashtag for the first time.

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According to the research company, this trend was spread through other fake profiles instead of these profiles in order to avoid the Twitter algorithm of recognizing fake trends and not to ban profiles.

In addition, out of 4 fake accounts launching the Sanction Pakistan hashtag, 3 accounts were created this year while an old ID was re-activated in one account.

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