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Indian Army Propaganda Spread by 1.4K AI-Powered Social Media Accounts

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Summary
Nutrition label

74% Informative

A network of fake social media accounts promoting Indian government and military propaganda targeting Indian readers has been uncovered after three years of operation.

Researchers from NewsGuard connected at least 500 Facebook and 904 X accounts together, which have been posting, reposting, and commenting on content intended to spread favor for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration in India .

The content also routinely casts aspersions on China , the Maldives , Bangladesh (following the popular ousting of its former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina ), and Pakistan .

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VR Score

67

Informative language

63

Neutral language

40

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

67

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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