Applied Network Science

Table 7 Important hashtags from period 3 cluster 5 which has U.S. Politics related hashtags

From: Characterizing communities of hashtag usage on twitter during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic by multi-view clustering

Period 3, cluster 5: U.S. Politics
Most Used	Number of	Hashtag with Highest	User	Hashtags with	User
Hashtags	Uses	Original User Ratio	Ratio	Lowest User Ratio	Ratio
Trump	189109	Satanism	0.988	hillaryemails	0.030
FakeNews	74076	DeutscheBank	0.987	PoliticalViews	0.037
MAGA	70999	Morons	0.986	HAction	0.040
FoxNews	67531	Socialists	0.981	drudge	0.051
WWG1WGA	49348	ShutItDown	0.978	slate	0.064
KAG	48339	AlexJones	0.977	newsabq	0.065
Trump2020	46790	2ndAmendment	0.971	abqfm	0.067
OneVoice1	43457	hypocrisy	0.969	rockoftalk	0.076
QAnon	41446	DrainingTheSwamp	0.960	NewsVideo	0.079
CoronavirusUSA	34819	Bullshit	0.960	bluelivesmatter	0.083

As with other U.S. politics clusters, this cluster is a mix of hashtags from political news sources, political personalities, and politically-motivated conspiracy theories. Relative to the first period’s U.S. Politics cluster, there is an increase in the use of more politically inflammatory hashtags

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