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Hey look at that! I never would have guessed that Twitter is now “a right-wing safe space in Brazil.”

restofworld.org/2023/musk-twit

4:20 PM Sun Jan 8 restofworld.org rést of world Brazil's right-wing Twitter boom The growth of total followers by category for selected Twitter accounts. Musk has made Twitter a MEDIA (RIGHT-WING) POLITICS (RIGHT-WING) POLITICS (LEFT-WING) right-wing safe space in MEDIA (LIBERAL) Brazil 50 Share this story 40 y f4 0 30 20 10 0 Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2023 *Results up to December 24. Ideological distinctions were made on the basis of public approval for either former president Jair Bolsonaro (in the case of right-wing accounts) and Lula (for left-wing accounts). This is a simplification because Brazil's politics are far more complex than a left-right division, Nina Santos, a researcher at the National Institute of Science and Technology in Digital Democracy, told Rest of World. "We have more than 40 political parties here," she said. "They are a lot less ideologically aligned than in the United States."
Jan 09, 2023, 12:23 AM·Public·Metatext
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