by Commetric | Nov 9, 2020
The pandemic has provided a fertile ground for the QAnon conspiracy theory – which is claiming that a cabal of Satan-worshiping paedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotting against Donald Trump – to move from the political fringe...
by Commetric | Nov 2, 2020
With the US election around the corner, we decided to analyse the conversation on Twitter – the social media platform which plays an important role in shaping political discourse in the US and is instrumental in how politicians, media outlets and citizens engage...
by Commetric | Oct 30, 2020
The much polarised rhetoric around the US Election 2020 provides us with a unique opportunity to study how language is used by specific subpopulations talking about specific topics. In this example, we are most interested in getting insights on how some key words are...
by Commetric | Oct 29, 2020
With the US election around the corner, we decided to analyse the social media performance of the two presidential candidates- Donald Trump and Joe Biden. We looked into all their posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram for the period July- October 2020, and the...
by Commetric | Sep 24, 2020
Why do science communications so often fail to achieve their objectives? Earlier this year the World Health Organisation (WHO) hired public relations firm Hill+Knowlton Strategies to develop a communications programme in the context of the intense criticism levelled...
