Sushant Case: 80K Fake Accounts & Bots Using #SSR Hashtags

After all the shocking twists and turns in the Sushant Singh Rajput’s death investigation so far, Rhea Chakraborty is still in jail for a drug abuse cases and the AIIMS panel concluded that the actor died by suicide, completely ruling out the possibility of murder. In yet another update, the Mumbai police have found a shocking number of fake accounts that were used to discredit the Mumbai police in Sushant’s case.

The Mumbai police have identified more than 80,000 fake accounts that were created on various social media platforms after Sushant Singh Rajput died. The fake accounts’ sole intent was to discredit the Mumbai police and the Maharashtra government.

The Mumbai police have probed into the accounts that used #justiceforsushant and #SSR on social media and found that they were uploaded from countries Slovenia, Indonesia, Turkey, Thailand, Romania, France, Italy, and Japan.

Several automated bots are used regularly to boost and inflate the traffic of posts with these hashtags. A senior IPS officer told Hindustan Times that they are verifying more accounts as most of these posts are in foreign languages but used hashtags #justiceforSushant #sushantsinghrajput and #SSR.

Mumbai police is looking into this rather keenly after finding these many fake accounts targeted Mumbai police and demoralized them when 6000 policemen were infected with coronavirus and 84 of them died due to it in the pandemic.

The Mumbai police faced the force of social media campaigns by these fake accounts and automated bots demanding justice for Sushant Singh Rajput. After the hashtags populated into millions demanding justice for Sushant and popular faces like Kangana and Sushant’s family accused Rhea of murder and abetment of suicide, the case was handed over to CBI.