The team began by collecting 12 Twitter accounts owned by prominent self-identified white supremacists with a combined total of 3,542 Twitter followers.
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OMG!!!! They’re taking over America!!
(All by my own little self, I have 11,000+ followers.)
And how many of the followers counted in this “study” follow more than one of these accounts?
(See the SPLC’s “liberal math”, here.)
Anyhow:
It might sound obvious, but that’s good news.
“In short, the vast majority of people taking part in extremist talk online are unimportant,” the authors write in the report.
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So WHY ARE YOU DOING STUPID STUDIES LIKE THIS??
