Sunday , June 22 2025
Social media icon

Social media politics uncovered
Exploring engagement of political parties on Facebook in Bangladesh

Bangladeshi political parties are fueling tensions in the lead up to the 12th National Assembly elections. The tensions have spread to social media. Parties frequently post on Facebook about the program, violence, leaders’ statements, and counter-accusations. Page followers react with love, like, wow, haha.

A study shows that people’s reaction to Facebook posts of three major political parties in the country has changed. Compared to the ruling party Awami League, the reaction has increased on the Facebook page of BNP.

Russia detects first SuperCard malware attacks via NFC

Russian cybersecurity experts discovered the first local data theft attacks using a modified version of legitimate near field communication (NFC)...
Read More
Russia detects first SuperCard malware attacks via NFC

Income Property Investments exposes 170,000+ Individuals record

Cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database with 170,360 records belonging to a real estate company. It contained personal...
Read More
Income Property Investments exposes 170,000+ Individuals record

ALERT (CVE: 2023-28771)
Zyxel Firewalls Under Attack via CVE-2023-28771 by 244 IPs

GreyNoise found attempts to exploit CVE-2023-28771, a vulnerability in Zyxel's IKE affecting UDP port 500. The attack centers around CVE-2023-28771,...
Read More
ALERT (CVE: 2023-28771)  Zyxel Firewalls Under Attack via CVE-2023-28771 by 244 IPs

CISA Flags Active Exploits in Apple iOS and TP-Link Routers

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has recently included two high-risk vulnerabilities in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV)...
Read More
CISA Flags Active Exploits in Apple iOS and TP-Link Routers

10K Records Allegedly from Mac Cloud Provider’s Customers Leaked Online

SafetyDetectives’ Cybersecurity Team discovered a public post on a clear web forum in which a threat actor claimed to have...
Read More
10K Records Allegedly from Mac Cloud Provider’s Customers Leaked Online

Canada 2nd largest airlines “WestJet” investigates cyberattack disrupting internal systems

WestJet, Canada's second-largest airline, is looking into a cyberattack that has affected some internal systems during its response to the...
Read More
Canada 2nd largest airlines “WestJet” investigates cyberattack disrupting internal systems

Paraguay 7.4 Million Citizen Records Leaked on Dark Web

Resecurity found 7.4 million records of Paraguayan citizens' personal information leaked on the dark web today. Last week, cybercriminals attempted...
Read More
Paraguay 7.4 Million Citizen Records Leaked on Dark Web

High-Severity Flaw in HashiCorp Nomad Allows Privilege Escalation

HashiCorp has revealed a critical vulnerability in its Nomad tool that may let attackers gain higher privileges by misusing the...
Read More
High-Severity Flaw in HashiCorp Nomad Allows Privilege Escalation

SoftBank: Over 137,000 personal info leaked

SoftBank has disclosed that personal information of more than 137,000 mobile subscribers—covering names, addresses, and phone numbers—might have been leaked...
Read More
SoftBank: Over 137,000 personal info leaked

Alert
Trend Micro Apex One Flaw Allow Attackers to Inject Malicious Code

Serious security vulnerabilities in Trend Micro Apex One could allow attackers to inject malicious code and elevate their privileges within...
Read More
Alert  Trend Micro Apex One Flaw Allow Attackers to Inject Malicious Code

Assistant Professor Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman conducted research titled ‘Politics in Social Media: Users’ Communication with Political Parties on Facebook’ at Jahangirnagar University. The research was published in the journal ‘Media Asia’ on November 7.

According to the research, Awami League, BNP, and Jamaat-e-Islami (Registration canceled by court) were the first ones to create a Facebook page on August 30, 2013. Jamaat made their page on June 20, 2014, and BNP on June 13, 2019.

          Source: Media Asia

BNP was the last to become active on social media, but their page gained popularity rapidly. The researcher explained that these three groups were chosen because they have a much higher popularity on Facebook compared to other groups.

According to the study of Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman, the amount of interaction (react, comment and share) on the page of Awami League in 10 years after opening the page has reached 13 crore 50 lakh 52 thousand.

        Source: Media Asia

On the other hand, in less than 4 and a half years, there have been 10 crore 90 lakh 15 thousand interactions on BNP’s page. And Jamaat’s page has 4 crore 35 lakh interactions. It has been calculated that BNP’s average annual interaction was 2 crore 7 lakh 29 thousand, while Awami League’s was 1 crore 5 lakh and Jamaat’s 4 million 93 thousand.

Awami League’s page interaction decreased after 2016, while BNP’s interaction rate increased since 2021, surpassing others.

      Source: Media Asia

The researcher analyzed the main reactions on the pages of three groups. Each reaction expresses certain feelings. For instance, the love reaction shows support or love, laughter or humor is represented by haha, sadness or sympathy is expressed with sad, surprise is expressed with wow, and anger is shown with angry.

According to the study, BNP received the highest rate of ‘profit’ response among the political parties, 1 crore 5 million 11 thousand, which is 60.50 percent of the total response. On the other hand, Awami League’s post received 60 lakh 13 thousand ‘profit’ reactions, which is 24.57 percent of the total reaction. The number of ‘love’ reactions on Jamaat’s Facebook page was 30 lakh 73 thousand or 14.93 percent.

BNP receives the highest percentage of sad and angry responses at 61.90% and 79.35% respectively. Awami League, on the other hand, leads in haha and wow responses at 63.76% (1,088,000) and 58.95% (150,000). Jamaat ranks third in all reactions except for sad.

In this regard, researcher Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman told the reaction of political parties on Facebook is becoming more serious in the context of Bangladesh in view of the upcoming 12th National Parliament elections. So, i tried to understand how the political parties to communicate trough social media.

He quoted, people expressed his thought but it can be in different ways. So, they act on social media through various reacts. The data was collected in the year of 2014 to 2023, he added.

Check Also

Financial Threat Assessment 2024
BCSI marks Bangladeshi 28 banks high, 10 medium for cyber attack

Bangladesh Cyber Security Intelligence (BCSI) has published Financial Threat Assessment report for 2024. In an …

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *