Godi Media: A Network Analysis
How Government of India is using Twitter/X to propogate a narrative..
The above image is representing of data extracted from Twitter using network analysis tool from Indiana University Observatory on Social Media. A search was performed on the work #Khalistan. The embedded GUI, in the tool, spits out a network map of who is generating and propogating this word on Twitter. The density of the node repesents the number of Twitter followers of these nodes propogating/re-tweeting the speicifc message containing the word “Khalistan”. The line between 2 dense nodes suggest that propogation network effect.
One can then use the dense clusters to identify the the originiation of the word and the cross reference a specific tweet reference using Twitter. It is clear that there is a cohort effect with signficant amplification factor.
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