A study has shown that Indian celebrities, including actors and cricketers, indulged in collusive tweeting of the Centre’s two hashtags – #IndiaAgainstPropaganda and #IndiaTogether – used in response to the global criticism of the government’s handling of the farmers’ protests.
The study showed that the tweets came in three batches – actors tweeting in the morning, cricketers in the afternoon and mixed group in the evening.
“In general, sportspersons [were] more likely to lean towards the government position,” Joyojeet Pal, one of the reaserchers, tweeted. “Cricketers [were] almost uniformly on the government side or neutral. Two major sportspersons who came out against [the trend] were [badminton player] Jwala Gutta and [cricketer] Irfan Pathan.”
The study also found evidence of trolling on pop singer…