EVENT 1: Coronavirus: Booster Shots
All tweets containing one of the following words were included:
‘vaccine, booster shot, covid19, shot, booster, pfizer ceo, #covid’
Top retweeted mainstream media links:
Breaking News: New York City's vaccine mandate for nearly all adults working in its public schools can proceed as scheduled, a federal appeals panel ruled. https://t.co/5nCSIeCw29
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 27, 2021
“I know it doesn’t look like it, but I am over 65. Way over,” Pres. Biden jokes before receiving his Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot. https://t.co/AHEjh54mF2 pic.twitter.com/KgLO6DfVt2
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) September 27, 2021
Covid-19 has been killing parents in their prime, leaving their children in the care of others. “I’ve had to become their mom.” https://t.co/uQLptbuqph
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) September 27, 2021
How much and how flocks talked about it
All tweets containing one of the following words were included:
‘border, patrol, illegal immigrants, open borders, haitian refugees’
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.@patrickgaspard of The Center for American Progress describes visiting the Texas border camp this week.
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) September 26, 2021
“We saw thousands of Haitian asylum seekers who were basically sitting in mud," Gaspard tells @GStephanopoulos. https://t.co/Ce9aMnoCsb pic.twitter.com/u22k1X6Oml
How much and how flocks talked about it
EVENT 3: Arizona Election Audit
All tweets containing one of the following words were included:
‘audit, arizona, maricopa county, biden won, #electionintegrity, #decertify, voting machines’
Top retweeted mainstream media links:
Schools across the U.S. that had mask requirements saw fewer outbreaks of coronavirus, according to new studies from the CDC. In one study, Arizona schools that did not require masks had 3.5 times as many outbreaks as schools that mandated them.https://t.co/tast5pp2wz
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 24, 2021
Opinion: “The GOP-commissioned review of Maricopa County ballots released on Friday, which confirmed Biden’s narrow victory in Arizona, is the latest reminder of the failure of Trump’s base-first strategy — but also how close it came to working.” https://t.co/saqpIg9Cun
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 26, 2021
Breaking News: Donald Trump was not cheated of victory in Arizona’s largest county in 2020, a draft of a Republican-ordered review of the election showed. https://t.co/7ZX7Rks5di
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 24, 2021
How much and how flocks talked about it
All tweets containing one of the following words were included:
‘infrastructure bill, #democratsbuildbackbetter, bipartisan infrastructure, trillion spending’
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No meanstream media covered this event
How much and how flocks talked about it
EVENT 5: R. Kelly found guilty of sex trafficking
All tweets containing one of the following words were included:
‘sex trafficking, kelly, #rkelly, trafficking’
Top retweeted mainstream media links:
Breaking News: R. Kelly was found guilty of being the ringleader of a decades-long scheme to recruit women and underage girls for sex. The verdict represents the first criminal consequence for the singer after decades of accusations of sexual abuse. https://t.co/NhoXmER3iK pic.twitter.com/4HLCG5focA
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 27, 2021
R. Kelly sat motionless in the courtroom as he was found guilty of all nine counts of the racketeering and sex-trafficking charges against him. This is by far the highest-profile, post-Me Too conviction involving sexual abuse seen in the music industry. https://t.co/5Qd3XmPwvN
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 27, 2021
R. Kelly found guilty on all charges of sex trafficking and racketeering in federal trial https://t.co/PwoZ41VTVj
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 27, 2021