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Many of the anti-Semitic attackers publicized their role as selfappointed surrogates for Trump and their allegiance to the white nationalist cause. These five words appeared most frequently in the 1,600 Twitter attackers’ account“ bios:” Trump, conservative, white, nationalist and American. This demonstrates that those with a propensity to send anti-Semitic tweets are more likely to support Donald Trump, and self-identify as white nationalists and / or conservative. This does not imply that Mr. Trump supported these tweets, or that conservatives are more prone to anti-Semitism. It does show that the users directing anti-Semitism toward journalists self-identified as Trump supporters and nationalist.
A very small number of journalists( 10), all of whom are Jewish, received 83 percent of the 19,253 anti-Semitic Tweets. Notably, Ben Shapiro, the former Breitbart reporter at the forefront of the so-called # NeverTrump movement, was targeted by more than 7,400 anti- Semitic Tweets.
There was a significant increase in the volume of anti-Semitic tweets in the second half of the reporting period. Seventy-six percent of Tweets at journalists were posted between February to July 2016. This corresponds with intensifying coverage of the presidential campaign, the candidates, and their positions on a range of issues. tweets to journalists
based on keywords correlating with anti-Semitism
15,952 or 83 % of 19,253
The percentage of all anti-Semitic tweets to all journalists were targeted at
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6,131
% journalist s
Number of unique users who posted tweets to US journalists, 1,600 of whom generated 13,500 of the 19,253 total tweets.
26
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22 %
The percentage of these 1,600 users whose accounts were suspended, or 20 % of the 19K-plus total tweets removed.
* The above word cloud is based on the Twitter bios of unique users / authors of anti-Semitic tweets directed at journalists.
* The top ten journalists targeted with anti-Semitic tweets.
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