EVENT 1: Pacific Northwest Heat Wave
All tweets containing one of the following words were included:
‘climate change, climate, heat, pacific northwest, record breaking, pacific, #heatwave’
Top retweeted mainstream media links:
Analysis: Many have expressed shock about this unprecedented heat wave. Yet the writing has been on the wall for decades. https://t.co/tVoO5TF2S0
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 28, 2021
How unusual is the heat that’s been smothering the Pacific Northwest? Off the charts. https://t.co/R0atewMMis pic.twitter.com/W0xBLM1WRT
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 29, 2021
Portland, Seattle and Canada break all-time records again amid historic heat wave https://t.co/MctLytlye5
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 29, 2021
How much and how flocks talked about it
All tweets containing one of the following words were included:
‘building, florida, collapse, surfside, condo’
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Breaking News: Less than three months before the collapse of a condo near Miami, the president of the building’s board warned that structural damage had “gotten significantly worse” since it was highlighted in a 2018 inspection.https://t.co/x6OVBgMAb9
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 29, 2021
Residents of the collapsed Florida tower were warned in April of extensive damage by the condo board president, who urged them to pay $15 million to fix issues https://t.co/1BCMezQ1jA
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) June 29, 2021
JUST IN: Pres. Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden will travel to Surfside, Florida, following last week's devastating building collapse. https://t.co/gSMboKu1iU pic.twitter.com/jFoZziA0Hl
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 29, 2021
How much and how flocks talked about it
EVENT 3: Natl. Guard at South Texas Border
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‘national, south dakota, border, kristi noem’
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Gwen Berry, who has used her platform to speak out against systemic racism, turned away from the flag while the national anthem played during the medal ceremony for the U.S. track and field Olympic trials on Saturday. https://t.co/3TPig28d01 pic.twitter.com/j7k7ITuLSw
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 28, 2021
Dissent is immediately smothered. Neighbors are urged to report on one another. Children are taught to look for traitors.
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 29, 2021
Armed with the national security law it imposed one year ago, China is pushing to make Hong Kong more like a mainland city. https://t.co/qzRO4NHCwd
How much and how flocks talked about it
EVENT 4: NSA-Tucker Carlson Controvery
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‘tucker carlson, tucker, nsa, carlson, spying’
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No meanstream media covered this event
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All tweets containing one of the following words were included:
‘delta, variant, fully vaccinated’
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About half of adults infected in an outbreak of the Delta variant of Covid-19 in Israel were fully inoculated with the Pfizer vaccine, prompting the government to reimpose an indoor mask requirement and other measures https://t.co/W2t5Ly0mdq
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) June 26, 2021
The WHO has urged even fully vaccinated people to continue wearing masks and taking other precautions because of concerns about the Delta variant. The guidance is a break with the CDC, which relaxed advice on mask-wearing for vaccinated Americans.https://t.co/ToBpcjuPMi
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 29, 2021
The Delta variant is rapidly taking over the U.S. Here's how we got to this point. https://t.co/BVSa2w0hXJ
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) June 28, 2021
How much and how flocks talked about it
All tweets containing one of the following words were included:
‘race’
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The 1921 Tulsa race massacre wasn't the only episode of violence overlooked by historians. U.S. institutions are confronting events like the 1919 Elaine massacre for the first time, even as some states try to limit how racism is discussed in schools. https://t.co/CunuhGhmlJ
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 29, 2021
From Donald Trump to Barack Obama, critical race theory has become a talking point. Find out why it's getting banned in classrooms across dozens of states. pic.twitter.com/N5KlUbm2on
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) June 29, 2021
"Trying to shield young people from guilt prevents them from seeing history for what it was," Timothy Snyder writes in @NYTMag. The totalitarianism scholar argues how new laws against discussion of race in schools have dire results for American democracy. https://t.co/BIeWtJZFWL
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 29, 2021
How much and how flocks talked about it
All tweets containing one of the following words were included:
‘arizona, maricopa county, audit, voting machines’
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Arizona’s Maricopa County will replace voting equipment that was turned over to a private contractor for a Republican-commissioned review of the 2020 presidential election, concerned that the process compromised the security of the machines https://t.co/PBsfarGit5
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 29, 2021
Arizona's most populous county is scrapping its voting machines and buying anew in the wake of the controversial and conspiracy-soaked Republican audit of last year's ballots. https://t.co/l6rSOkqXjC
— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) June 29, 2021
How much and how flocks talked about it
EVENT 8: NY Mayoral Primary Elections
All tweets containing one of the following words were included:
‘adams, garcia, absentee ballots, ranked choice, wiley, eric, nyc mayoral’
Top retweeted mainstream media links:
Breaking News: Eric Adams’s lead in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary shrunk after an initial count of ranked-choice ballots, with Kathryn Garcia in second. Nearly 125,000 absentee ballots still need to be counted. https://t.co/WMWKax9WF5
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 29, 2021
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams maintains a lead in the preliminary vote count for New York City's Democratic primary for mayor, but preliminary results suggest a closer-than-expected race that could swing in a different direction. https://t.co/zcOk0SWm0G
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) June 29, 2021