LOSER Trump Tweets to Distract People When He Gets Bad Media Coverage, Study Suggests
Researchers found that when certain outlets featured more coverage of the Mueller investigation into potential Russian meddling in the 2016 election, the president subsequently tweeted more about unrelated topics. In turn, this led to less reporting on the investigation.
The authors of the findings published in the journal Nature Communications said this suggests the president's tweets may divert the media from issues he finds threatening.
The authors noted that no politician before Trump had used Twitter like him, and this has given the social media platform a central role in global politics. The study was published the week after the 2020 presidential election, when Twitter flagged several of the president's tweets as false or misleading after he claimed without basis that the Democrats were trying to steal the election.
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