Donald Trump’s tweet in March 2020 that referred to coronavirus as the ‘Chinese virus’ led to a rise of anti-Asian hashtags on Twitter, a new study reveals. US researchers examined nearly 700,000 tweets containing nearly 1.3 million hashtags, the week before and after the president’s tweet on March 16, 2020. They wanted to see whether his … Read more
Is Instagram biased towards Trump? Firm blames a ‘bug’ for promoting negative hashtags for Biden – while the Facebook-owned firm hid the same ones for the president – and now claims its fixed Instagram has disabled its ‘related hashtags on its platform as of Tuesday The move follows a report that suggests the firm was … Read more
Protesters are leveraging avid fans of Korean pop music to drown out hashtags supporting Donald Trump and pro-police movements on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter K-pop fans have been enlisted to drown out right-wing hashtags Fans of flooded #MAGA and #BlueLivesMatter with K-pop content Earlier this week, K-pop fans inundated an app promoted by Dallas police By … Read more