News21 monitored the daily social media activity of various far-right users, including white nationalists and neo-Nazis, from June 10 to June 24. Those tracked had more than 3 million followers combined. Reporters recorded and compiled more than 2,500 post from popular platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, and emerging social media platforms, including Gab and VK. Reporters found that sentiment toward certain groups fluctuated with real-world events during the tracking. For instance, Latino sentiment fluctuated with the U.S-Mexico border crisis as seen below.
SOURCE: News21 analysis of far-right leaders usage of popular and emerging social media platforms.
Original data from the 2018 Hate in America project.
| Date | Posts | Event | Original event note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-06-10 | 12 | ||
| 2018-06-11 | 9 | ||
| 2018-06-12 | 11 | Reunification of children under the age of 5 | The Trump administration completes reunification for eligible children under the age of 5. According to the Department of Justice, at this point 57 of the 103 children have been reunified. |
| 2018-06-13 | 9 | ||
| 2018-06-14 | 10 | ||
| 2018-06-15 | 13 | 2,000 children separated from families | The Department of Homeland Security announces that nearly 2,000 children have been separated during the zero-tolerance initiative. The announcement prompts hundreds to march for the “Families Belong Together” movement. |
| 2018-06-16 | 7 | ||
| 2018-06-17 | 1 | ||
| 2018-06-18 | 34 | The administration is 'doing its job' | Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen says the adminstration "will not apologize" for separating families at the border, claiming the agency was just doing its job. |
| 2018-06-19 | 61 | Republicans separate from Trump | The GOP moves to end the separation of families at the border — a decision that caused some Republicans to disagree with President Donald Trump. |
| 2018-06-20 | 56 | President signs executive order to reunite families | Trump signs an executive order to keep families together at the U.S. Mexico border after an explosive public outrage. “I didn’t like the sight or feeling of families being separated,” Trump said. |
| 2018-06-21 | 45 | Pentagon to house migrant children | The Pentagon agrees to accommodate as many as 20,000 unaccompanied migrant children from the U.S.-Mexico border. |
| 2018-06-22 | 34 | ||
| 2018-06-23 | 13 | ||
| 2018-06-24 | 12 |