Background

Following complete lockdown of Indian-Administered-Kashmir on August 5, 2019, through abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian constitution which gave autonomy to the region, the government of India, on December 11, 2019, passed a controversial bill called "Citizenship Amendment Bill", which aimed to provide citizenship to non-muslim minorities through naturalization. These two events were opposed nationally and internationally. Fueling religious radicalization, these events led riots in major cities in the country, more specifically Delhi, capital of India. These riots are reffered to as Delhi Riots.

EU DisinfoLab, a Brussels based NGO, focused on tackling disinformation campaigns targeting EU, on November 26, 2019, released a report titled, "Uncovered: 265 coordinated fake local media outlets serving Indian interests". This report further raised questions on the authenticity of online content and this extends to content on social media. Governments and lobbyists have been using social media to stir public perception.

Data source

To collect data twint is used. Twint is an advanced twitter scrapping tool which has no limits and no authentication required. The project is 2 years old, however, there is active participation by contributors.

Goal

The goal of curating this data set is to extract underlying events taking place. I came up with the following mindmap of what could be achieved from this dataset but there is much more that could be done.