Digital Diplomacy: Tweet Patterns of World Leaders
Overview G5iO looked at the tweeting patterns of the most active heads of state on Twitter. These include @narendramodi, @JoeBiden, @RTErdogan, @ImranKhanPTI, @HHShkMohd, @KingSalman, @EmmanuelMacron, @BorisJohnson, @JustinTrudeau, @KremlinRussia, @BorisJohnson and @netanyahu. Methodology Twitter data was scraped from Twitter rest API of last 3200 tweets of each Leader. We crunched over 33 thousand tweets and analyzed […]
Twitter & Facebook: A Study in Bias
Overview Social media giants, Facebook and Twitter, receive thousands of requests from governments for user data, account information and legal action against certain individuals. However, their compliance with these request shows discrepancies, where the US and other Western countries have the highest compliance rate and the framework to deal with social media platforms through local […]
Politics of Narratives: How Images Reinforce Fragility in Afghanistan
G5iO undertook a data-driven discourse analysis over how Afghanistan has been depicted online over the last 20 years across different media, policy and development platforms. Summary Our findings show that discourse on Afghanistan has been dominated largely by 2-3 International NGOs, US Think Tanks and Media outlets that have maintained a more or less consistent […]
Afghan Taliban Victory Claims on Twitter
The first week of June 2021 saw a flood of social media posts depicting evidence of massive Taliban victories across Afghanistan against the backdrop of an impending US withdrawal. The organized online campaign included videos,
Digital vs Mainstream Media: Mapping Coverage Bias During Israel Palestine Escalation
Overview As violence escalated between Israeli forces and Palestinians over the last three weeks, there has emerged a contentious debate over how this conflict has been reported over some of the most popular news outlets worldwide. This includes long-ranging issues over how the broader discourse related to the Israel-Palestinian problem has been framed particularly in […]