Our Sharktank database is now available to academic institutions and researchers who want to understand how information operations can transform a robust democracy into authoritarian rule.19 By August 2021, the Sharktank database had captured 382,633,021 public posts and 444,788,994 comments from 68,097 public pages, 23,736 public groups, and 4,759,678 users on Facebook. It had also captured 11,400,241 unique links from 235,265 websites. Once YouTube overtook Facebook as the number one social media platform in the Philippines in 2021, we began monitoring public channels and now have insights
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