Did Instagram Algorithm Boost Jantar Mantar, Mute Jharkhand? NDTV Data Analysis
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Jantar Mantar Went Viral, Ranchi Vanished: Is Instagram Suppressing Jharkhand’s Student Protest?
While the Cockroach Party’s Jantar Mantar protest flooded Instagram feeds and became a major social-media phenomenon, a parallel student agitation in Jharkhand struggled to achieve comparable visibility despite dramatic visuals of clashes, tear gas, water cannons and lathi charges. The stark difference has raised questions over whether Instagram’s algorithm merely reflected differences in audience behaviour and content quality, or whether Meta’s…
Why did Instagram amplify Jantar Mantar but not Ranchi?
The contrasting social media visibility of two protests has raised questions about how platforms such as Instagram determine which events receive widespread attention and which remain largely confined to smaller audiences. While the protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi became highly visible across Instagram and other social media platforms, the student agitation in Ranchi, Jharkhand, received significantly less amplification despite featuring many …
Jananayak Janata Party (JJP) youth leader Digvijay Singh Chautala held a press conference in Bhiwani on Friday. During the press conference, Chautala stated that following the successful student protests led by Jainji at Jantar Mantar in Delhi and in Jharkhand, INSO, the student wing of Haryana's JJP, inspired by this, has decided to form a collective student movement by uniting student units of all political parties across the state. He also st…
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