Overview
- The Network Contagion Research Institute, in partnership with Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab, released the analysis on Monday.
- Roughly half of the accounts boosting several of Fuentes’s most viral posts were concentrated in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Malaysia and Indonesia, locales tied to low-cost engagement farms.
- Within the first 30 minutes of posting, just over 60% of initial amplification came from the same repeat accounts, with 92% of those repeat amplifiers fully anonymous and many operating as single‑purpose boosters.
- The report says Fuentes’s posts routinely surpassed far larger accounts, including Elon Musk, in early retweet velocity despite a far smaller follower base.
- NCRI documents on‑air prompts directing followers to retweet in real time and argues the manufactured engagement helped fuel mainstream attention after Charlie Kirk’s assassination.