Twitter accounts run by supporters of political parties play a crucial role in promoting a party’s message in the online sphere. In just the last few days, the top trending hashtags in Pakistan have included #وزیراعظمنوازشریف (#PrimeMinisterNawazSharif) and...
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On 4 September 2019, a popular Facebook page with 37,000 followers, Stand With Kashmir, tweeted that their page had been blocked. “It looks like they are trying to shut down our page because we are the only page actively talking about Kashmir," Mariah, founder and admin of the page told Soch....
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Why is the government so concerned about a social media platform that is only being used by about two per cent of the country’s internet users? On July 4th, an organised campaign, #ArrestAntiPakJournalists, began trending on Twitter. Using Tweetbinder, a trend analysis website, Soch Writing...
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Rizwan Saeed, an online big data researcher, talks to Soch about his frustration with ‘propaganda fake accounts’ and the existence of political party-backed social media networks of trolls. Rizwan Saeed, a cultural anthropologist, is currently completing a Master’s degree in Social...
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