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A Network That Keeps Reappearing: 2023 Hashtags Tracked by DFRLab

Approximate activity on each hashtag

One structure of accounts is activated at every event: backing the president, praising the police, defending the rights record, toppling a syndicate head, smearing a fact-checker

The hashtag campaign against Engineers Syndicate head Tarek El-Nabarawy, peaking on 30 and 31 May 2023

One account

209

uses of the two hashtags

Another account

163

uses in under an hour

Five accounts

5

posted the same text in the same order

Three accounts

3

posted Mostaqbal Watan's statement in the same minute

DFRLab found 21 active accounts, at least 12 of them coordinating, and described them as "pro-government" and "likely inauthentic" without saying the state runs them

Source: Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), 23 March, 31 May and 19 October 2023