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Donald Trump uses Twitter to divert the media away from certain topics<p class="mol-para-with-font"> /news/donald_trump/index.html does indeed use his /sciencetech/twitter/index.html account to distract the media's attention away from topics that might harm his reputation, a study has confirmed.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Experts led from Bristol analysed media coverage of the Trump administration in its first two years ? specifically, in relation to Russia and the Mueller investigation.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">They compared this with Mr Trump's discussion of other topics that he considered more favourable ? /news/china/index.html , /news/immigration/index.html and jobs ? at the same time.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The more the Mueller report was covered, the more Mr Trump tweeted about these other topics ? and the less media attention the probe received the next day, the team said.</p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> <img id="i-fc5faf107a07396b" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" website height="430" width="634" alt="Donald Trump (pictured) does indeed use his Twitter account to distract the media's attention away from topics that might harm his reputation, a study has confirmed" class="blkBorder img-share" style="max-width:100%"> </div> <noscript> <img id="i-fc5faf107a07396b" website height="430" width="634" alt="Donald Trump (pictured) does indeed use his Twitter account to distract the media's attention away from topics that might harm his reputation, a study has confirmed" class="blkBorder img-share"> </noscript> </div> <p class="imageCaption">Donald Trump (pictured) does indeed use his Twitter account to distract the media's attention away from topics that might harm his reputation, a study has confirmed</p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">'Whenever the media report something threatening or politically uncomfortable for President Trump, his account increasingly tweets about unrelated topics representing his political strengths,' said paper author Stephan Lewandowsky.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'This systematic diversion of attention away from a topic potentially damaging to him was shown to significantly reduce negative media coverage the next day,' the psychologist from the University of Bristol added.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Mr Trump is one of the most prolific users of social media among world leaders.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Since the beginning of his candidacy in 2015, approximately 30,000 tweets have been sent from his account.</p><div> <div data-track-module="am-related_carousel^related_carousel" data-track-selector=".rotator-panels a:not([class*=external])" data-dm-rotator-rotate="false" data-track-pos="static" data-preferred-shared-network-enabled="" data-dm-rotator-auto-init="" id="p-22" class="related-carousel with-fb-or-tw sciencetech" data-dm-rotator-active-class="active" data-dm-rotator-page-count="1.0" data-dm-social-article-auto-init="" data-dm-rotator-page-size="1"> <div class="rotator bdrcc"> <div class="rotator-title"> <h2>RELATED ARTICLES</h2> <ul class="rotator-pages link-xocc"> <li class="rotator-prev"> # </li> <li> # </li> <li class="rotator-next"> # </li> </ul> </div> <ul class="rotator-panels link-bogr1 linkro-ccox"> <li> /sciencetech/article-8931139/YouTuber?-designs-VR-version-Trump-campaigns-Four-Seasons-Total-Landscaping-site-furries.html /sciencetech/article-8907335/Twitter-adding-warnings-tweets-early-election-results-accounts-100k-folllowers.html /sciencetech/article-8863247/US-election-Experts-easily-hijack-apps-Biden-Trump.html /sciencetech/article-8830983/Heart-attacks-strokes-soared-62-cent-two-days-Trump-elected.html </li> </ul> </div> <b></b> <div class="fb"> <b></b> <h2>Share this article</h2> <div class="share"> <span class="wai">Share</span> </div> <div class="count"> <span>99</span> shares </div> </div> </div> </div><p class="mol-para-with-font">In their study, Professor Lewandowsky and colleagues focused on Mr Trump's first two years in office ? a period which covered the 'Robert Mueller investigation' into potential collusion between the Trump team with Russia in the 2016 US election.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The researchers analysed content relating to Russia and the Mueller investigation in two US media outlets ? the New York Times and ABC World News Tonight.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">They selected a set of keywords from Mr Trump's preferred topics at the time ? 'jobs', 'China' and 'immigration' ? which they hypothesised were likely to appear in diversionary tweets.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The study found that the more the New York Times and ABC World News Tonight reported on the Mueller investigation, the more Mr Trump's tweets mentioned those keywords.</p><div class="artSplitter mol-img-group" style="style"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap"> <img id="i-3ec692717f26b2db" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" website height="353" width="634" alt="'Whenever the media report something threatening or politically uncomfortable for President Trump, his account increasingly tweets about unrelated topics representing his political strengths,' said paper author Stephan Lewandowsky. Pictured, Mr Trump delivers another all-caps tweet as he distracts from his loss in the 2020 US presidential election" class="blkBorder img-share" style="max-width:100%"> </div> <noscript> <img id="i-3ec692717f26b2db" website height="353" width="634" alt="'Whenever the media report something threatening or politically uncomfortable for President Trump, his account increasingly tweets about unrelated topics representing his political strengths,' said paper author Stephan Lewandowsky. Pictured, Mr Trump delivers another all-caps tweet as he distracts from his loss in the 2020 US presidential election" class="blkBorder img-share"> </noscript> </div> <p class="imageCaption">'Whenever the media report something threatening or politically uncomfortable for President Trump, his account increasingly tweets about unrelated topics representing his political strengths,' said paper author Stephan Lewandowsky.Pictured, Mr Trump delivers another all-caps tweet as he distracts from his loss in the 2020 US presidential election</p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">Results showed that every five additional ABC headlines relating to the Mueller investigation was associated with one more mention of a keyword in Mr Trump's tweets.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Two additional mentions of one of the keywords in a tweet from the president was then associated with roughly one less mention of the Mueller investigation in the following day's New York Times.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Such a pattern did not emerge with other, placebo, topics that presented no threat to Mr Trump ? such as Brexit, or non-political issues like football or gardening.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'It's unclear whether President Trump, or whoever is at the helm of his Twitter account, engages in such tactics intentionally or if it's mere intuition,' Professor Lewandowsky noted.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'Either way, we hope these results serve as a helpful reminder to the media that they have the power to set the news agenda, focusing on the topics they deem most important, while perhaps not paying so much attention to the Twitter-sphere.'</p><div class="moduleFull mol-video"> <div> <div itemprop="video" itemscope website content="Ivanka jokes about her father's Twitter use during Florida speech"></div> <meta content="PT01M08S" itemprop="duration"> <meta website itemprop="thumbnailUrl"> <meta website itemprop="contentURL"> <meta content="2020-10-22T13:56:10+0100" itemprop="uploadDate"> <meta content="576" itemprop="height"> <meta content="1024" itemprop="width"> <meta content="'His tweets can feel a bit unfiltered': Ivanka Trump jokes about her father's use of Twitter during a rally to supporters in Florida." itemprop="description"> <div class="item"> <div class="vjs-video-container vjs-fixed vjs-span-two-col sciencetech" id="v-1536097234221420409"> <video controls="" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" website jokes about her father's twitter use during florida tweets can feel a bit unfiltered': ivanka trump of rally to supporters in florida.website preload="none"> <source website type="video/mp4"> </video> </div> </div> </div></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">The study also included an expanded analysis considering Mr Trump's entire Twitter vocabulary as a potential source of diversion.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Analysis identified nearly 90 pairs of words that were more likely to appear in tweets when coverage of Russia and the Mueller investigation increased.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">These word pairs largely represented Mr Trump's political strengths, such as the economy.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The full findings of the study were published in the journal </p>