Shortly after the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, many social media accounts emerged and began to show negative feelings against the Maharashtra government, the Mumbai police and even defamed the image of the police commissioner, Param Bir Singh.
Mumbai police in their investigation have found 50,000 social media accounts most used to defame the police and the government.
Police said the number of fake accounts has exceeded 1.5 lakh. The defendants used a paid program and proxy servers to remain anonymous and divert attention from law enforcement agencies.
In a press release, the police said that many accounts showed negative trends about the state government, the Mumbai police and the police commissioner using different hashtags. Many fake Twitter accounts were created posing as popular personalities like Bollywood actress Raveena Tandon.
“During the investigation, we discovered that these fake accounts are controlled by a ‘BOT’. A single BOT program, which is a business tool and is used for negative trends, has the power of 500 tweets / retweets per request and a huge capacity of 5 million tweets per month. These are paid programs that have the power to tweet in any language and can be run from anywhere in the world using a proxy server to remain anonymous, ”the statement said.
Also Read: China Will Change School Curriculum To Add Positive Covid-19 Narrative
According to the statement, a team of cyber and forensic experts presented the report. The report was generated using artificial intelligence and machine learning for the analysis of hashtags and related accounts that were created or emerged between June 2020 and October 2020 to show trends against worthy personalities.
A team of cyber experts found more than 1.5 lakh bills during technical investigation. Almost 80 percent of these accounts were suspicious as they were mainly making negative tweets and comments and their activities surprisingly showed a drastic jump in the number of tweets per day, number of followers, quite a difficult feat for an individual user to accomplish. genuine.
“Currently, many accounts are trying to disappear. Many of them are deleting negative posts, comments, and tweets to evade the investigation process. A significant percentage of the accounts are operating outside of India in countries such as China, Panama and Nepal, ”the statement added.
.
