The Pak Army is facing a $100 million social media assault. The precision of disinformation campaigns, the polarised narratives dominating airwaves, the relentless digital drumbeat flooding social media, tailored bots amplifying anti-military rhetoric with thousands of coordinated posts, the calculated spread of algorithm-driven propaganda, the orchestrated echo chambers fueling division, the ceaseless barrage of hashtags weaponising public opinion and the synthetic voices of trolls drowning out dissent. All these suggest a state-backed hand at play.

A playbook that mirrors the 2019 Balakot crisis response? This is expertly crafted propaganda. This is cognitive warfare. There’s no genuine grassroots uprising. This is a deliberate and calculated attempt by a state actor to destabilise. It’s a $100 million operation fueling bots, trolls and content creation.

Setting up 50,000 bot........

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