The Hard Truth About The Baltimore Riots and Study Finds ‘Presence of Professional Protesters to Incite More Violence’ in Baltimore and Ferguson
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The Hard Truth About The Baltimore Riots
Study Finds ‘Presence of Professional Protesters to Incite More Violence’ in Baltimore and Ferguson
‘If the Baltimore riots seem like a tired replay of Ferguson, there might be a good reason as to why.
A data mining firm with government ties that tracks social media reported that they uncovered a core group of accounts who appear to have driven much of the buzz and even more of the calls to actions by crowds on the ground.
The online activity of a few dozen of the same individuals were linked and timed with key moments in Baltimore and Ferguson, leading up to the most intense cases of both sustained demonstrations and episodes of violent riots in both of these cities.’
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