4 Blue Shirt Initiative Inside Social Media: The Blue Shirt’s Social Media Observation 250 B MILITARY MEANS AND VIOLENCE 209 During our observation, the other most common messages on Facebook (404 posts) and Telegram (15 messages) were those promoting military means and violence in response to the post-coup armed conflicts. The key message was to promote military means as the solution to end the post-coup political conflicts with each side escalating violence to outbid the other. 200 150 109 100 50 53 48 0 January Military means and violence (419) Facebook - 1018 posts Telegram - 91 messages February March April May June Fig 7. Number of posts or messages concerning military means and violence (By events) Military means (417) Facebook - 402 posts, Telegram - 15 messages Supporting armed resistance against SAC 150 posts Call for to join PRF members 54 posts Call to participate in PDF supporting networks 48 posts Call for to join PDF members 21 posts Violence (2) Facebook - 2 posts Fundraising for PDF 114 posts Final battle campaign 2 posts Spring revolution support lottery 19 posts Anyar thunder campaign 2 posts Call for clicking for PDFs 2 posts Fig 6. Number of posts or messages concerning military means and violence Call for military reinforcements for SAC 3 posts Call to participate in SAC supporting networks 2 posts Call for violence actions against SAC's informants and alliances 2 posts Fig 8. Contents concerning military means and violence