Sunday, August 7, 2016

Map of Hate Tweets Mirrors Trump's Support


See the map? The red areas show “geotags” where cell phone messages are most concentrated for homophobic, racist, and disability tweets. The map strongly correlates to Donald Trump’s strongholds of support.

For homophobic tweets, the tracking tool counts tweets with the word dyke, fag, homo, and queer (different maps for each term).
For racist tweets, the tracking tool counts chink, gook, nigger, wetback, and spic (again, different maps by term).
For disability, the map counts cripple.
These hate-message geotags don't include Trump campaign tweets-- such as this-- but maybe they'll add a Pocahantas tracker:
 Jul 25
Elizabeth Warren, often referred to as Pocahontas, just misrepresented me and spoke glowingly about Crooked Hillary, who she always hated!

Humboldt State University (California) starting tracking this mapping tool in 2013, maybe earlier— long before Trump was a candidate.
If you want to see specific maps by “homophobic,” “racist,” and “disability” CLICK HERE TO SEE IF YOUR AREA IS HIGHLIGHTED. 
Map data ©2016 Google, INEGI

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