Using the president’s tweets to understand political diversion in the age of social media

By analyzing President Trump’s tweets and data from two media sources, the authors provide evidence suggesting that when the media reports on a topic potentially harmful to the president, he tweets about unrelated issues. Further evidence from this case study suggests that these diversionary tweets...

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Autores principales: Stephan Lewandowsky, Michael Jetter, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:d1f28338e62b44dbb07efb31e311cfda2021-12-02T17:33:12ZUsing the president’s tweets to understand political diversion in the age of social media10.1038/s41467-020-19644-62041-1723https://doaj.org/article/d1f28338e62b44dbb07efb31e311cfda2020-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19644-6https://doaj.org/toc/2041-1723By analyzing President Trump’s tweets and data from two media sources, the authors provide evidence suggesting that when the media reports on a topic potentially harmful to the president, he tweets about unrelated issues. Further evidence from this case study suggests that these diversionary tweets may also successfully reduce subsequent media coverage of the harmful topic.Stephan LewandowskyMichael JetterUllrich K. H. EckerNature PortfolioarticleScienceQENNature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2020)
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Using the president’s tweets to understand political diversion in the age of social media
description By analyzing President Trump’s tweets and data from two media sources, the authors provide evidence suggesting that when the media reports on a topic potentially harmful to the president, he tweets about unrelated issues. Further evidence from this case study suggests that these diversionary tweets may also successfully reduce subsequent media coverage of the harmful topic.
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title Using the president’s tweets to understand political diversion in the age of social media
title_short Using the president’s tweets to understand political diversion in the age of social media
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