Much has been written over the past week about the DiGrazia et al. paper showing a relationship between a candidate’s tweet share and vote share and the Fabio Rojas op/ed in the Washington Post plugging it. I don’t want to get into a critique of the paper’s methods or findings, as many others have ably done. But I do want to use this as a teachable moment. [cont.]
Seth Masket (U. of Denver), The Mischiefs of Faction