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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Compan... by ng-user on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:28AM (#16755630)
A little contradictory, I concur.

Does claiming someone is a member of ISIS automatically make you a right-wing conspiracy theorist or is it different under these circumstances?

How is the number 40% actually determined, surely it must be an assumption from scrolling through the feed for a little while? To my knowledge it's difficult (near impossible without 3rd party tools) to determine in real-time the number of tweets pertaining to a certain topic.

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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Compan... by ssaew333 on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:48AM (#16755833)
I thought it was clear from my post i was guesstimating. I don't typically do rigorous analysis of what I see in twitter results, so I'll just say, it seemed like a lot of right wing accounts implying that media was covering up the shooting, or that the shooter was actually motivated by radical islam.
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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Compan... by justicezyx on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @12:40PM (#16756419)
Right, this statement, if were used by the original post, to me, is quite accurate.
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