[Thread]1 As some have noticed, the hashtag '"media witch hunt" has been trending today. This marks the third iteration of the similar hashtags "media scum" & "scum media". I downloaded around 14,000 interactions from around 2700 unique Twitter accounts. See the diagram 
2/ The large beautiful purple cloud is fairly easy to explain. The purple is the type of tweets [In this case, "a mention in retweet"] This is when someone gets mentioned in a tweet, and others retweet it]. In this case, it is people RTing this video by @rebeccabutlerm2
3/ As you can, Rebecca Butler has tagged a few journalists, the bbc, sky, and Emily Thornberry. A lot of traffic on this hashtag and trend is due to people simply retweeting this video by Butler, who is a barrister. Rebecca has been active on hashtags media scum and scum media
4/Beyond this popular tweet, KtHopkins has been widely retweeted on the "media witch hunt" hashtag. Of course @KTHopkins has been prolific on all hashtags attacking journalists over the #DominicCummings scandal, going as far as to single out specific journalists to be harassed
5/ beyond just being an awful thing to do, Hopkins behaviour seems to directly violate Twitter's rules on Abuse - encouraging others to harass , silence, intimidate or target others. - Thread over! Hope you enjoyed
