Valin Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 The Rubin Report July 9 2019 Andy Ngo joins Dave Rubin on the Rubin Report LIVE to talk about the Antifa attack in Portland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted July 9, 2019 Author Share Posted July 9, 2019 It’s Not Your Imagination: The Journalists Writing About Antifa Are Often Their Cheerleaders Eoin Lenihan May 29 2019 On February 1, 2017, Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to give a talk about free speech at the University of California, Berkeley. But he was prevented from speaking by a group of 150 or so masked, black-clad members of a then-obscure movement calling itself “Antifa.” The protestors caused $100,000 worth of damage to the campus and injured six people as they threw rocks and Molotov cocktails. Nine months later, again at Berkeley, an “anti-Marxist” rally descended into violence as approximately 100 masked Antifa members harassed journalists and beat rally organizers and attendees. (Snip) n October 2018, my research partner and I decided to investigate the truth of this impression by using a mix of network mapping and linguistic analysis to see which prominent journalists who covered Antifa also were closely connected to leading Antifa figures on social media. We then inspected the Antifa-related stories these journalists had written. We created a data set of 58,254 Antifa or Antifa-associated Twitter accounts based on the follows of 16 verified Antifa seed accounts. Using a software tool that analyzed the number and nature of connections associated with each individual account, we winnowed the 58,254 Antifa or Antifa-associated Twitter accounts down to 962 accounts. This represents a core group of Twitter users who are connected in overlapping ways to the most influential and widely followed Antifa figures. Of these 962 accounts, 22 were found to be verified—of which 15 were journalists who work regularly with national-level news outlets. (Snip) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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