🧵🚨1/Somewhat depressing graph. I calculated whether all X posts with over 500 retweets mentioning the words "Muslim" and "UK" sent since 29th July were anti-muslim, anti-immigrant (red), neutral (blue), or in defense of muslims and/or immigration (green). #Ukriots #hatespeech 
2/ I grouped the tweets into the following three categories, 'anti', 'in defense of', and 'neutral'. Sadly, the impressions gained by the number of 'Anti' tweets was over 159 million (67%), while those in defense of around 28 million. Neutral tweets were about 50 million
3/ Some of the most xenophobic and anti-muslim accounts include. @radiogenoa @goldingbf @tpointuk @jimfergusonuk @ashleasimonbf @europeinvasionn The degree of hate varies, from outright conspiracy theories, to suggestions that Muslims enjoy special treatment by the police.
4/ The graph shows how many impressions were garnered by tweets across the past 10 days. Remember red = anti, blue = neutral, green = a defense of. The blue line is cumulative impressions.
The graph makes for pretty grim viewing....
The graph makes for pretty grim viewing....
5/ It's not all bad though, special shoutout to @piersmorgan who gave one of the most widely viewed rebuttals of racist Islamophobia. 👑
6/ Despite the amazing solidarity showed by the UK's anti-hate marches last night, the most popular and shared tweets on X mentioning Muslims and UK seem to be negative. Food for thought, and reflection - especially on what rises to the top on this platform. :/ #UkRiots
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