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23 August 2018

BN macais are trying desperately to paint a bleak picture of the PH Government by manipulating social media through polls…

It is simply done. PAY for polls and PAY owners of Russian and other Bots to vote AGAINST the PH Govt.

https://twitter.com/gst183/status/1032119242865274880

PETALING JAYA: A large number of Malaysians have voiced their unhappiness with the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government through social media polls on the coalition’s performance in its first 100 days in power.

Collectively, more than 200,000 people participated in the polls, which were run by Sinar Harian, The Malaysian Insight and five Facebook pages, namely Kelab Maya Mahathir, Suara Rakyat, Otai Bersih, The Patriots and Tentera Troll Kebangsaan Malaysia (TTKM). Some of the outfits are generally seen as pro-PH.

Sinar Harian’s poll of more than 26,000 people found 78% saying they felt PH didn’t fulfil its 100-day promises while The Malaysian Insight, which polled about 53,000 people, found 67% were unhappy.

Those expressing dissatisfaction made up 79% of participants in the Suara Rakyat poll and more than that in the other four polls, with Otai Bersih recording 80%, Kelab Maya Mahathir 88%, The Patriots 89% and TTKM 90%.

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21 April 2018

malaysiakini.com‏Verified account @malaysiakini 12m12 minutes ago

Just weeks before Malaysia goes to the polls, automated accounts known as bots are flooding Twitter with tens of thousands of pro-government and anti-opposition messages, according to a review of the tweets by Reuters and a US digital media research institute.

Asked about the matter, San Francisco-based Twitter Inc said it was focused on identifying and suspending accounts that violate its spam policies.

“We continue to fight hard to tackle any malicious automation on our platform as well as spam accounts,” it said, without giving specific details.

A source close to the matter said the company had suspended 500 accounts involved in the messages on the May 9 general election since they involved spam or malicious automation.

Twitter bots, accounts which can post, like or resend tweets automatically, are not illegal in Malaysia and seem to be having minimal impact on its election campaign. But they have come under global scrutiny amid probes into Russian meddling in the 2016 US elections using social media platforms.

Ahmad Maslan, the information technology bureau chairman of Prime Minister Najib Razak’s Umno, said he did not know who was behind the bot activity and that it was not his team.

The government’s communications and multimedia minister Salleh Said Keruak did not respond to calls or text messages seeking comment.

A researcher at the Digital Forensic Research (DFR) Lab of the Washington-based Atlantic Council think tank said over 17,000 bots tweeted content related to the Malaysian election over the last week.

Nine of the top 10 most active bot accounts containing anti-opposition hashtags and pro-government messages had Russian-sounding names and used the Cyrillic script, said Donara Barojan, a research associate at DFR.

“The prevalence of bots with Cyrillic screen names does not suggest that Russian social media users are meddling in the Malaysian elections, but does indicate that whoever is behind the campaign purchased some bots created by Russian-speaking bot herders,” she said.

Reuters was unable to establish where the tweets originated or which firm or individual may be behind the bot accounts.

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/420894

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