The circulation of political news on Twitter during the Dutch elections

Sabine Niederer; Maarten Groen

doi:10.2307/j.ctv1b0fvs5.6

The circulation of political news on Twitter during the Dutch elections

Sabine Niederer, Maarten Groen

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This chapter enquires into the resonance of junk news on Twitter during the campaign periods prior to the 2019 Dutch Provincial elections and European Parliamentary elections. Querying Twitter for political topics related to the two elections, and various divisive social issues such as Zwarte Piet and MH17, we analyse the spread and prominence of problematic sources. We also examined the claim that Twitter is susceptible to abuse by bot and troll-like users, and found that troll-like users were active across all political and issue spaces during the Dutch Provincial elections of 2019. Divisive issues remain steadily (even if marginally) active in junk news and tendentious news throughout the tested time frames, suggesting these issues are year-round rather than event-based or seasonal, as they are in the mainstream media.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Politics of Social Media Manipulation
Editors	Richard Rogers, Sabine Niederer
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Publisher	Amsterdam University Press
Chapter	4
Pages	123-146
ISBN (Electronic)	9789048551675
ISBN (Print)	9789463724838
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1b0fvs5.6
Publication status	Published - 2020

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