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Russia's 2016 Twitter Campaign Was Strongly Pro-Gun, With Echoes Of The NRA
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To illustrate the reach of the posts, the data analysts calculated their total potential impressions — the number of followers for the accounts multiplied by the number of Tweets.
Pro-NRA and pro-gun messages had more than 32.4 million potential impressions; anti-gun and anti-NRA messages had fewer than 6.7 million potential impressions. The pro-NRA messages had nearly five times the reach as the anti-NRA messages.
The tweets are overwhelmingly supportive of gun ownership and speak about the NRA in positive terms. There was comparatively little anti-NRA content.
Ed.: For comparison, Elon Musk gets more potential impressions than that in just two tweets. |
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PHORTO
(9/21/2018)
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Russia is friendlier to our Second Amendment than Democrats?
My, how NOVEL!
(smirk)
There's a message in there somewhere. |
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