Study: Trump likely driving white nationalist gains on Twitter

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Study: Trump likely driving white nationalist gains on Twitter

By David McCabe at the Hill

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/294090-study-trump-likely-driving-white-nationalist-gains-on-twitter

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign is “likely driving” part of the recent growth in the white nationalist movement on Twitter, according to a report released Thursday.


The study, produced by George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, examined the interest in Trump's campaign among accounts that follow certain white nationalists on Twitter.

“Followers of white nationalists on Twitter were heavily invested in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign,” wrote author J.M. Berger. “White nationalist users referenced Trump more than almost any other topic, and Trump-related hashtags outperformed every white nationalist hashtag except for #whitegenocide within the sets of users examined.”

Berger looked at tens of thousands of followers of major white nationalist and pro-Nazi accounts, and he found that three of the top 10 hashtags used by accounts in both groups of users during April were Trump-related. They were the third-, fourth- and fifth-most popular among white nationalist users examined and the third-, fourth- and seventh-most popular for Nazi sympathizers.


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