How COVID-19 polarised politics: #IStandWithDan versus #DictatorDan
Date Time How COVID-19 polarised politics: #IStandWithDan versus #DictatorDan A QUT study of two interrelated Twitter hashtag campaigns in relation to the Victorian Premier Dan Andrews’ handling of the COVID-19 second wave found the activity was driven by a “small, hyper-partisan core of highly active participants” and not bot accounts. More than half of the top 50 Twitter accounts tweeting the anti-Dan hashtags qualified as anonymous “sockpuppet” accounts compared to one third of the #IStandWithDan accounts. A sockpuppet account is defined as human-managed with fabricated or anony...
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