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Twits on Twitter, Politics of Hate Dept. 0

The Southern Poverty Law Center reports on a recent study that shows a correllation between Donald Trump’s tweets and surges in hate crimes against Latinos and Muslims. A nugget:

Their (Karsten Muller and Carlo Schwarz–ed.) study used Twitter and FBI hate crimes data to come to a stark conclusion: hate crimes against Muslims and Latinos occurred shortly after Trump made disparaging tweets about Muslims and Latinos. Moreover these anti-Muslim and anti-Latino hate crimes were physically concentrated in parts of the country where there is high Twitter usage.

Follow the link for the transcript of an interview with the researchers.

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