Over 1.five Lakh Pretend Twitter Accounts Used To Defame Maharashtra Govt: Mumbai Law enforcement officials
Mumbai Police’s Cyber Cellular will examine the subject additional, police mentioned. (Representational)
Mumbai:
Twitter accounts operated from international international locations, a few of them run by way of “bots”, had been used to unfold slanderous posts in opposition to the Maharashtra govt and Mumbai police after actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s dying as in step with a cyber mavens’ document, the town police claimed on Tuesday.
Most of the Twitter accounts which unfold false or defamatory messages about Mr Rajput’s suicide and its probe had been discovered to be run by way of “bots” (device techniques designed to tweet and retweet content material), the mavens’ document mentioned.
Those accounts had been being run from outdoor India, from puts reminiscent of China, Panama, Hong Kong, Nepal, it mentioned.
Some accounts that have been being operated from inside of India had been the usage of proxy servers to cover the person’s identification, the document mentioned.
The choice of such suspicious accounts was once roughly over 1.five lakh, and choice of bots concerned on this operation was once over 1,000, the police mentioned.
Straight away after Mr Rajput’s dying in June, many new Twitter accounts surfaced and began sending out posts with “destructive sentiments” in opposition to the Govt of Maharashtra, Mumbai Police or even began maligning the Mumbai police commissioner (Param Bir Singh), the document mentioned.
Other hashtags had been used for this, and a few faux accounts of recognized personalities like Bollywood actors had been used to “execute the defamation over social media platform”, the document mentioned.
No less than 19 Hashtags and mentions reminiscent of JusticeforSSR, ParamBirScam, ParamBirSinghResign, SanjayRaut, Officeof UT, AUThackeray, BabyPenguin had been investigated by way of the staff of cyber and forensic mavens.
The document showed the suspicion that bots had been getting used to unfold defamatory messages, the police mentioned in a unencumber.
Now many of those accounts had been deleted, or destructive posts are being got rid of to evade investigators’ scanner, they mentioned.
Mumbai Police’s Cyber Cellular will examine the subject additional, they added.
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