Black Lives Matter Riots Fuelled by Twitter: Study
Social media platform Twitter played a critical role in helping Black Lives Matter with organising and spreading information during the peak of the movement, according to a new study.
The analysis by the Australian National University looked at 118 million tweets over a two-year period from 2020 to 2021.
“For activists, we can see protests acted as an indicator for the number of tweets, but also the number of tweets acted as an indicator for protests,” said lead researcher Prof. Colin Klein.
“You can clearly see the patterns of political engagement. Activists drive and are driven by protests, while the right reacts more to the political context,” he said in a statement….