Truth Tracker: How does anti-Scheer sentiment stack up against anti-Trudeau talk online? - 2019-10-17
Truth Tracker: How does anti-Scheer sentiment stack up against anti-Trudeau talk online? October 17, 2019,
CTVNews.ca asked Jones to look into the trends surrounding anti-Trudeau and anti-Scheer sentiment after reporting on his initial analysis showing evidence of bot-like activity on the #TrudeauMustGo hashtag. Those findings revealed that 15 per cent of accounts using the hashtag between Sept. 3 and 5 were ones that primarily identified with U.S. right-wing politics.
This week Jones updated his analysis using a sample of over 100,000 tweets, retweets, mentions and replies, producing a sample of 12,000 unique accounts that actively tweet using #TrudeauMustGo.
Once again, he found the most commonly occurring word used in the biographies of those accounts was "Make American Great Again" (MAGA).
"Indeed, MAGA appeared around 1,200 times, approximately in 10 per cent of all accounts in the sample -- 12 per cent when we don't count accounts with no biographical data. That's a huge chunk," Jones explained.
