Labour dominating Twitter discussions, researchers say
by Alex Hern from on (#2S1P0)
Labour makes up 62% of specific party references on platform, while proportion of links to professional news sites rises - but so do those to fake news
Content about Labour is dominating Twitter in the run-up to the general election, according to a new study from the University of Oxford's Internet Institute.
The researchers, who have been tracking the changes in activity over time, looked at traffic on Twitter over the final week of May to identify trends around political engagement, ultimately cataloguing almost 2.5m tweets spread over a number of election-related hashtags.
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