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How COVID-19 polarised politics: #IStandWithDan versus #DictatorDan
A QUT study of two interrelated Twitter hashtag campaigns in relation to the Victorian Premier Dan Andrews’ handling of the COVID-19 second wave found the activity was driven by a “small, hyper-partisan core of highly active participants” and not bot accounts.
More than half of the top 50 Twitter accounts tweeting the anti-Dan hashtags qualified as anonymous “sockpuppet” accounts compared to one third of the #IStandWithDan accounts.
A sockpuppet account is defined as human-managed with fabricated or anonymous profile details, often created to support or critique a specific person or organisation, posing as an independent third-party unaffiliated with the main account operator.