Messages in Political and Surrogate Groups Spiked on Jan. 22

Message volume in Organic groups did not substantially increase on the day of the Ram Temple inauguration.

ine graph showing peak in actvity on January 22 for both Political and Surrogate groups. Organic groups do not peak at this time.
Based on messages collected from 20 WhatsApp groups in Mandi. Daily message volumes are compared to the daily average for Jan. 14–Jan. 20 for each set of groups. See our full methodology for definitions of Political, Surrogate, and Organic groups.
Chart: Jeremy SInger-VIneSource: Digital Witness LabGet the dataCreated with Datawrapper