Does Twitter bridge the Sunni-Shiite divide or make it worse ?
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/01/07/does-twitter-bridge-the-sunni-shiite-divide-or-make-it-worse
According to data I collected at New York University’s Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) lab, almost 900,000 Arabic tweets containing anti-Shiite slurs and 30,000 containing anti-Sunni slurs were sent across the Arab Twittersphere in the two days following al-Nimr’s death.
(Chiffres impressionnants, mais je ne sais pas comment ils font pour compter ce genre de choses.)
