Affiliated media: Asia-Plus, Newspaper

Incident date: February 8, 2019

Attack type:

• Trolling

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Facebook

Location: Tajikistan, Dushanbe

Additional information:

After publication in the newspaper of an article which included the result of a survey on trust among the population for Tajik police, the Asia-Plus Facebook page was subjected to trolling by groups of young people, amongst whom the majority of those who shared the material with insults aimed at the editorship and management of the newspaper were fake accounts.