Joe Biden Archives • MarvelousAI

03 Nov 2020

Election 2020: Twitter is not Real Life, and yet …

Donald Trump, Election Coverage, Joe Biden

Trump Trump-related Twitter chatter over the last several weeks skews heavily to the left of the political spectrum, i.e. the Twitterverse dislikes Trump more than they like him. Biden Biden-related Twitter chatter is also more left-leaning, but the contrast is less stark. What about the polls? In overall volume, left-leaning…

Sharing a Playbook: The Convergence of Russian and U.S. Narratives about Joe Biden

Election Coverage, Joe Biden

Spoiler alert: the closest match between Russian propaganda is Fox News We recently published a paper for the 2020 American Political Science Association's Annual Meeting . This project was a collaboration with Sarah Oates, Marvelous.ai, and UMD student Jesse Anderson. We looked at the convergence of Russian propaganda and US narratives on…

Biden: Right-Wing Attacks Drop along with Popularity

Bernie Sanders, Democratic Primaries 2020, Election Coverage, Joe Biden

Following unexpectedly poor performance in the Iowa Caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, former Vice President Joe Biden is no longer the assumed front-runner for the Democratic nomination. As we wrote earlier, he had consistently been the subject of vicious attacks from the right-leaning section of the Twitterverse. Bernie Sanders,…