The Guinness Book of Records blasted Jiang Wanan’s Facebook account with real facts! TPOC: More than 90% of the accounts are not fake

Shen Boyang, a Taipei mayoral candidate from the Democratic Progressive Party, published an old article about drug policy 12 years ago, which was uncovered by the Kuomintang camp, accusing Shen of "equaling drugs and medicines." Taipei Mayor Chiang Wanan recently posted a post on Facebook asking Shen not to cover up the US-SA Winter Plan. The message section was bombarded with 520,000 comments in 24 hours, setting a new Guinness record. However, the blue camp questioned whether the cyber forces had re-washed the messages. In this regard, the Taiwan Issues Research Center (TPOC) analyzed that more than 90% of the comments did not come from suspected fake accounts, and the popular comments showed signs of a large number of real people interacting.

The Taiwan Issues Research Center used the QuickseeK public opinion system to analyze and collected a total of 459,110 comments from October 3 to 10 for analysis. It was found that more than 90% of the comments did not come from suspected fake accounts, and the popular comments showed signs of a large number of real-life interactions.

TPOC pointed out that based on the frequency and spacing of postings, the research team detected 685 fake accounts that were suspected of posting a large number of posts, and posted a total of 33,982 messages, accounting for 7.4% of the total. The behavior of these accounts is obviously abnormal: one account posted 144 pieces of the same content within 22 minutes, and another account posted 163 pieces of content in a row within 3 minutes, with most intervals within 10 seconds. However, after deducting these accounts, the remaining 425,128 messages, or about 92.6%, came from other accounts, indicating that the suspected fake accounts were only a small part of the entire message wave.

In addition, during the wave of comments, some netizens shouted out phrases such as "Get the 400,000th comment" and "I feel like I have a chance to break 500,000." This kind of behavior of treating the number of comments itself as a collective game and spontaneously playing tricks is the most difficult part for the scripted Internet army to imitate. The most popular replies are concentrated within 3 hours after posting, which is also in line with the natural pattern of real-person interaction: "The earlier you leave a message, the longer the exposure will be, and the more likes will be added."

TPOC believes that this "Guinness Record" is not simply a cyber attack, but a collective action: public calls and template copying amplify the volume, with a large number of real people participating, and a small number of abnormal accounts.