Research
Military Diplomacy: How Militaries Leverage Social Media for Strategic Objectives
Overview The rise of digital platforms such as Twitter have transformed the way governments and various state organizations engage in public diplomacy and outreach. Exploring these themes, G5iO has in…
Digital narratives – Mapping User Behavior across TikTok and Twitter
Overview TikTok has become an increasingly popular social media platform in Pakistan. G5iO compared some of the most salient and recent online discussions on Twitter to see whether those same…
Digital Journalism – Comparing the Online Impact of Pakistan’s Top Journalists
Overview Traditional news sources have experienced a marked decline over the years, resulting in a shift towards online and digital reporting. These changing patterns in news consumption have led reporters…
Propaganda Wars: Media Framing of Fake News in the Russian-Ukraine Conflict
Overview The Russia-Ukraine conflict has dominated the global digital and social media spaces since February and has redefined how info wars are being waged worldwide. Since its start, it stands…
Shifting Stands: US-Pakistan Relations Post Afghanistan-Withdrawal
Overview US-Pakistan relations have gone through many twists and turns in the last few years. Therefore, G5iO conducted a discourse analysis on key Twitter accounts of US-based think tanks, policy…
Digital Terrorism: How Terror Networks Leverage Social Media for Info-Ops
Overview: In the last few years, there has been a sharp surge in terrorist presence online with several terror networks leveraging social media for recruitment and propaganda purposes. G5iO mapped…
Ukraine Russia War – Contextualizing the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis
Overview: The ongoing Russia Ukraine conflict has resulted in a refugee crisis in Europe with more than 5 million Ukrainians displaced over the last two months. G5iO investigated Twitter timelines…
Political crisis in Pakistan 2022 – An Analysis of National Narratives on Twitter
Overview: Taking a detailed look at the top trends that featured on the Pakistan trends panel in the last few months, G5iO undertook an in-depth discourse analysis of the country’s…
Lettergate: Disinfo, Fake News & Political Turmoil in Pakistan
Summary Given the current political turmoil and instability centered around the ouster of Imran Khan’s government, there has been a marked increase in disinformation and fake news proliferating throughout Pakistan’s…
Official Perspectives on the Russia-Ukraine War: A Timeline
Overview: Continuing its analysis on the Russia Ukraine conflict, G5iO conducted a discourse analysis of the Twitter timelines of the US State Dept, the UK Foreign Office and the Foreign…
Diverging Narratives – How Global Media Responded to the Ukraine Conflict
Overview: Given the ongoing Russia Ukraine conflict and its fast-evolving media discourses, we investigated Twitter timelines of major world media houses to compare their reporting on the conflict. Our primary…
Hashtag Wars: A Discourse Analysis of Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Overview: Given the ongoing Russia Ukraine conflict and its fast-evolving media discourses, we investigated some of the numbers behind two of the most popular yet opposing hashtags trending in relation…
Masking Instability: How India Deploys Info Ops on Kashmir
Overview: This study maps the deeply integrated and coordinated social media campaigns of Indian Info Ops networks on Kashmir issue. It does this by examining tweets related to Kashmir issue…
Pakistan in 2021 – An Analysis of National Narratives on Twitter
Overview The last two decades have seen an exponential growth in the digital landscape, revolutionizing the way people communicate and share ideas online. Twitter, while leading this change, has transformed…
Inflation in a Post-COVID World: Comparing Twitter Conversations in Pakistan & Abroad
Overview In our latest study, we investigated the correlation between petrol prices, inflation, and their related online conversations with a specific focus on Pakistan and the post-pandemic global economic recovery.…
Unravelling the Ongoing Discord on Climate Change – Social Media Analytics on #COP26
Overview Climate change is expected to affect every country in the world, but its impact will not be felt equally across all regions, and some will be worse hit than…
The Pavilion Online – Social Media Engagement During the T20Cricket World Cup
Overview There are some 2.5 billion people who watch cricket, making it the second most watched sport in the world. So, when 16 international teams came together in the United…
Mapping Network Behavior and Coordinated Activity – A Study on Indian Info Ops
Overview This study maps the deeply integrated and coordinated social media campaigns of Indian Info Ops networks against its regional rivals (China and Pakistan) It does this by examining tweets…
A Study in Platform Manipulation: A Case Study of Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan on Twitter
Overview In the light of recently leaked “Facebook Papers” and Twitter’s study showing their platform being used as “megaphone for the right” have once again reaffirmed that unregulated social media…
Incidental and Divergent Media Attention on Afghanistan: A Comparative Analysis of US, Pakistani, and Indian Newspapers
Overview The US-withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Fall of Kabul (to the Taliban) were extensively covered across global media. Countries such as the US, India and Pakistan had greater stakes…
Is International Media Switching off on Afghanistan? An Analysis of Print & Digital Media
Overview G5iO carried out a discourse based analysis of Twitter data and popular international media outlets’ coverage of the Afghanistan issue over the last few months. The study aims to…
How the Uyghur Issue Has Been Framed Across Global Media – A Snapshot
Overview G5iO undertook a discourse-based analysis of popular international media outlets and their coverage of the Uyghur issue over the last two years. The study aims to analyse how the…
Panjshir Files: Fake News & Bias in Indian Media Coverage of Afghanistan
Summary Amidst the unfolding collapse of the Ghani Government over the last month, there has been a marked increase in disinformation and fake news proliferating throughout Indian Media related to…
Talking Afghanistan: Discourse Analysis of Pakistan and US Based Experts on Afghan War
Overview In the backdrop of fall of Kabul on 15th August, G5iO conducted a study to understand the variations in the narrative and analyses given by different Afghan policy experts…
An analysis of Twitter discourse during Tokyo Olympics2020
G5iO looked into the online discourse on Tokyo Olympics 2020 to analyze the current conversations and general interest in the event. Using data from Twitter, the key objective of our…
Disinformation and Propaganda Campaign to Sabotage Afghan Peace Process
Overview G5iO undertook extensive data analytics to deconstruct coordinated disinformation and info-ops being undertaken by both India and Afghanistan to derail Afghan Peace Process and target Pakistan. Evidence indicates extensive…
Proliferation of Terror Networks on Telegram
Overview Telegram has recently become a preferred platform for terror networks to disseminate violent and extremist content. It has been monopolized by almost every major Terrorist network -while this platform…
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…
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…
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…
