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Alleged Coordination Behind Trending Anti-Vaccine Tweets

It is suspected that the Twitter hashtag #TolakDivaksinSinovac that has been trending recently was coordinated. The hashtag pursues an anti-vaccine narrative and contains misleading information.

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Harry Susilo/Satrio P Wisanggeni/ Kurnia Yunita Rahayu/Irene Sarwindaningrum/B Krisna Yogatama
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The activity of the @ JebulMania291 or Kamandanu Ngapak account on Twitter social media which made an unclear tweet containing random letters without meaning accompanied by the hashtag #TolakDivaksinSinovac was visible on the citizen\'s cell phone screen, in Jakarta, Sunday (21/2/2021).

JAKARTA, KOMPAS — It is suspected that the Twitter hashtag #TolakDivaksinSinovac that has been trending recently was coordinated. The hashtag pursues an anti-vaccine narrative and contains misleading information.

Tweets bearing the hashtag #TolakDivaksinSinovac, which promotes rejecting vaccination using the Sinovac’s CornaVac vaccine, started circulating on Twitter on Jan. 12, 2021, the day before the government started rolling out its Covid-19 mass vaccination program. The first tweet bearing the hashtag was posted at 6:53 a.m. and had become a trending topic by 10:55 a.m. By late afternoon, the hashtag was still trending with more than 12,000 tweets.

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Syahnan Rangkuti
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