Fewer and fewer “refugee” on Twitter – financial times

Digital. Postings are fewer, and more negative. The commitment to the refugee crisis has changed substantially since last autumn, according to an analysis by omvärldsbevakaren Lissly done together with the Swedish newspaper svenska Dagbladet.

Completing the terms of how many posts with the word “refugee” as is done on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and on Swedish forums and blogs. In the last year was on average 55 000 such posts per month. This year is the continuation of a lot of posts compared to previous years but the average so far, 26 000 per month, is still almost a halving compared with last year.

– Engagement from last fall have not kept themselves. The solidarity votes are still there but they are not as strong anymore. There are still posts where you defend refugees and refugee policy but at the same time, there have been more critical voices on how immigration affects the welfare system, ” says Gustav Barck, an analyst at Lissly, to SvD.

Compare only the month of september, the difference is even clearer. 2015 – then including the image in the three-year-old Alan Kurdis lifeless body created huge reactions – was 168 000 “refugee”-entry in september. This year is the same figure of 21 000.

The increasingly negative sentiment, a development that Gustav Barck has seen in the last two years. At the same time, he observes:

– The posts that engage the most are often the ones that are most sympathetic to immigration and refugees.

the FACTS

Here are some of the year’s most shared posts on Twitter, containing the word “refugee”:

“If you think that immigration costs too much money, maybe you should try not to burn down the flyktinganläggningar.”

IT-entrepreneur David Kjellström, June 15.

Post has been shared over 750 times.

“Have you tested the twitter go? man goes around town and starts to stalk strangers with aggressive comments about., refugee.”

Andreas Ericson at the think tank Timbro, on July 14.

the Post has been shared over 500 times.

“63 million refugees. As if the Uk’s entire population forced to leave their home! Tomorrow is voting in parliament to close.”

Jonas Gardell, on 20 June, the day before parliament voted through a controversial tightening of the asylum policy.

the Post has been shared close to 250 times.

Source: Svenska Dagbladet

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