Regimes across the Middle East have increasingly utilized different social media platforms in their pursuits to advance their respective political agendas. These campaigns are centered around the dissemination of regime-backed narratives in the attempt to manufacture a sense of regime legitimacy. The number of confirmed fake Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts linked to these governments is staggering. Between these five states, more than 4,000 automated accounts, pages, groups, and events have been confirmed removed. These accounts typically represent themselves as locals of whatever specific country being targeted, and primarily focus on the advancement of different host-regime narratives.
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