Report false accounts on Twitter to support Coup d’etat in Bolivia

Behind the coup d’etat against Evo Morales, a huge social media machine worked to legitimize, through the lie, the alleged fraud in the presidential elections.

Twitter, with its customary “impartiality” was part of the manufacture of a media assembly against Evo. There are figures that transcend this Monday and leave much to be desired of the policies and seriousness of that social network.Deployment of large-scale military tactics More than 68,000 newly created fake accounts operated on Twitter in the last week to accompany the coup in Bolivia, according to an investigation by Julián Macías Tovar, head of social networks at United Podemos, in Spain.

The study provides strong evidence about the deployment of large-scale military tactics to flood digital networks with propaganda. Organic accounts refer to real people who express themselves naturally in the network, while fake accounts are generated from laboratories and on a scheduled basis with artificial intelligence systems.

Use of social networks to destabilize legitimate governments

According to Julian Macías, the account of Luis Fernando Camacho, leader of the opposition and main architect of the coup d’etat, has passed in the last 15 days from 3,000 to 130,000 followers, of which more than 50,000 are newly created profiles in November 2019, according to the investigation.

The self-proclaimed president Jeanine Añez passed in the last two weeks of 8,000 followers to almost 150,000 followers, of which more than 40,000 are newly created fake accounts. Most of these accounts were created before November 10, the day when the military demanded the resignation of President Evo Morales and the coup d’etat was triggered … In the history of Twitter, founded on March 21, 2006, it is the first once a display of such volume of fake profiles created in such a short time occurs.