{"id":1534,"date":"2025-10-12T14:25:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2025-10-12T14:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:26:26","slug":"the-social-media-influencers-attack-on-justice-gavai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu\/?p=1534","title":{"rendered":"The social media influencers&#8217; attack on Justice Gavai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joyojeet Pal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March 2023, we had done a <a href=\"https:\/\/joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu\/?p=1165\">piece<\/a> on the concerted online attacks on Chief Justice DY Chandrachud by social media accounts. At the time, the Twitter API was available, we were able to do fairly fine-grained analysis on where the attacks were coming from, what they were thematically centered around. As an experiment, I tried to look at the most influential accounts that floated anti-Chandrachud content online to see if there is some overlap. This time, the theme is quite clear, and it&#8217;s singular &#8211; caste.<br><br>Since there is no structured X data anymore, I&#8217;ll just post the screenshots, the story tells itself.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-1024x540.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-1024x540.png 1024w, https:\/\/joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-768x405.png 768w, https:\/\/joyojeet.people.si.umich.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image.png 1207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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At the time, the Twitter API was available, we were able to do fairly fine-grained analysis on where the attacks were coming from, what they were thematically centered around. 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