Islamophobic tweets 'peaked in July'
by Catrin Nye
BBC News
https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/50293/islamophobic-tweets-peaked-in-july
Excerpt:
Almost 7,000 "Islamophobic" tweets were sent, in English, every day in July worldwide, data seen by the BBC suggests.
This compared to 2,500 in April, with peaks recorded following the Nice lorry attack and the attempted military coup in Turkey.
Forty-nine words and hashtags were used as indicators of anti-Islamic tweets, by the think tank Demos.
Twitter said it was "continuing to invest heavily" in preventing abuse.
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