Interesting #Puck piece (at least what I can see) on #Musk losing #Twitter to #TwitterBankruptcy - many replies to the thread posit Musk & #Saudis bought #birdsite for #2024Election disinfo or to trash it as research shows Twitter HELPED DEFEAT #Trump in 2016, 2020.
Research: https://ddss.princeton.edu/research/featured-projects/social-media-and-election-outcomes-0
From threads:
https://nitter.sethforprivacy.com/BGrueskin/status/1670872345043517441#m
https://nitter.sethforprivacy.com/somogyianthony/status/1670899788840148997#m
Social Media and Election Outcomes
Research Question: How did social media, and Twitter in particular, affect recent election outcomes in the United States? Data: The main sources of raw data were existing datasets of tweets, collected either randomly throughout the day or specifically around U.S. presidential elections. Twitter API and webscraping methods were used to then gath...