Drop Site News: Master of Controversies, Propaganda and Death to Journalism
By: Ghazala N. Yousafzai 1. Overview Drop Site News (DSN) is an American-based investigative journalism platform, launched on 8 July 2024 by Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim. DSN claims to focus on (1) Exposing crimes, (2) Covering conflict zones, (3) Analyzing overt & covert conflicts, and (4) Investigating US involvement in global conflicts. DSN offers […]
Digital Journalism: How Top Pakistani Vloggers Leverage Thumbnails
Overview: YouTube has seen significant growth in Pakistan, with over 71 million users. The platform has become a hub for political discussions and narrative building. This report analyzes how top Pakistani YouTubers use video thumbnails to attract viewers, in the process spread misinformation and promote sensationalism. Methodology: For this study, we analysed 65 videos […]
Social Media Propaganda Campaign: Jaish-e-Fursan-e-Muhammad, A Case of Indian Support to Terrorism in Pakistan
An Insight into Computational Propaganda of Contemporary Army: An Analysis of Official Twitter Account of Chinar Corps
Digital Diplomacy: Top Diplomatic Missions on Pakistani Twitter
Overview The rise of digital platforms such as Twitter have transformed the way governments and various state organizations engage in public diplomacy and outreach. Exploring these themes, G5iO has in the past taken a detailed look at how world leaders and governments use Twitter for digital diplomacy in pursuit of their foreign policy goals. In […]
Military Diplomacy: How Militaries Leverage Social Media for Strategic Objectives
Overview The rise of digital platforms such as Twitter have transformed the way governments and various state organizations engage in public diplomacy and outreach. Exploring these themes, G5iO has in the past taken a detailed look at how world leaders and governments use Twitter for digital diplomacy in pursuit of their foreign policy goals. In […]
Digital narratives – Mapping User Behavior across TikTok and Twitter
Overview TikTok has become an increasingly popular social media platform in Pakistan. G5iO compared some of the most salient and recent online discussions on Twitter to see whether those same issues were also present on Tik Tok to understand its key themes and topics better. These issues comprised the recent monsoon spell in Karachi (a […]
Digital Journalism – Comparing the Online Impact of Pakistan’s Top Journalists
Overview Traditional news sources have experienced a marked decline over the years, resulting in a shift towards online and digital reporting. These changing patterns in news consumption have led reporters and journalists to increasingly invest in social media platforms to reach a broader audience. For example, just twitter has dramatically changed the way in which […]
Propaganda Wars: Media Framing of Fake News in the Russian-Ukraine Conflict
Overview The Russia-Ukraine conflict has dominated the global digital and social media spaces since February and has redefined how info wars are being waged worldwide. Since its start, it stands as one of the most relevant examples of hybrid warfare today. For example, data from the Paris-based fact-check platform, AFP Fact Check, shows that Ukraine […]
Shifting Stands: US-Pakistan Relations Post Afghanistan-Withdrawal
Overview US-Pakistan relations have gone through many twists and turns in the last few years. Therefore, G5iO conducted a discourse analysis on key Twitter accounts of US-based think tanks, policy experts, and media sources to understand, analyze and deconstruct the shifting discourses on Pakistan over the last year. Our aim was to see which topics […]