Data and Code for: From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Anti-Minority Sentiment
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Karsten Müller, National University of Singapore, NUS Business School; Carlo Schwarz, Bocconi University
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Project Citation:
Müller, Karsten, and Schwarz, Carlo. Data and Code for: From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Anti-Minority Sentiment. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-06-20. https://doi.org/10.3886/E158541V1
Project Description
Summary:
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We study whether social media can amplify anti-minority sentiments with a focus on Donald Trump's political rise. Using an instrumental variable strategy based on Twitter's early adopters at the South by Southwest festival in 2007, we find that higher Twitter use in a county is associated with a sizeable increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes after the 2016 presidential primaries. Trump's tweets about Muslims predict increases in xenophobic tweets by his followers, cable news mentions of Muslims, and hate crimes on the following days. These results suggest that social media content can affect real-life outcomes.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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Social Media;
Twitter;
Hate Crime;
Minorities
JEL Classification:
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D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
D74 Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
O35 Social Innovation
Z10 Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General
D72 Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
D74 Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
O35 Social Innovation
Z10 Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General
Geographic Coverage:
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United States
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