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A narrative that's been floating around on the right regarding the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh is that the standard of "innocent until proven guilty" implies that the allegations in question should not stop (or even delay) his confirmation.
We downloaded tweets containing "innocent until proven guilty", resulting in 204254 tweets from 111792 accounts over the last 10 days. Can we statistically determine if innocent until proven guilty is a standard these users consistently adhere to outside of a court of law?
To this end, we harvested tweets containing #LockHerUp from the time of the 2016 GOP convention through the present, and compared that set of accounts with the set with recent "innocent until proven guilty tweets".
15961 of the 111792 accounts (14.3%) with "innocent until proven guilty" tweets have #LockHerUp tweets in their history. Let's go one step further and attempt to split the accounts into left and right.
The right-wing accounts form a distinct cluster in the "innocent until proven guilty" retweet network. 23.9% of the accounts in that section also have #LockHerUp tweets. Apparently, this standard applies to conservative SCOTUS nominees but not Democratic presidential candidates.
Much appreciation to @ZellaQuixote for the project concept.
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