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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stephan Lewandowsky, Michael Jetter, Ullrich K. H. Ecker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19644-6