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The El Fagr Network on Twitter: 2,541 Accounts and 7.9 Million Tweets

What the Stanford Internet Observatory found in the data released by Twitter, April 2020

"Taking direction from the Egyptian government": the only sentence in which a global platform named who directs an Egyptian network

Accounts removed by Twitter

2,541

accounts

Tweets in the dataset

7.9

million tweets

In Arabic

84.5%

of tweets

Praises and backs

The Egyptian governmentPresident Abdel Fattah al-SisiThe UAE and Saudi ArabiaKhalifa Haftar in Libya

Attacks

The BrotherhoodQatarIranTurkey

The researchers said the network resembled a "media asset" more than a "mercenary organization" or a government; the weekly paper, founded in 2005, is owned by El Fagr for Printing and Publishing

Source: Twitter via Al Jazeera, 2 April 2020; Renée DiResta, Tara Kheradpir and Carly Miller, Stanford Internet Observatory (2020)