Perception And Mobilization Of “Truth” January 6, 2021, Stop The Steal, And Social Media

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Author(s)Leslie, Winston
Date Accessioned2022-07-14T17:25:42Z
Date Available2022-07-14T17:25:42Z
Publication Date2022-05
AbstractThe Stop the Steal movement was intensely popular among conservative and far-right groups in the United States, and was predicated on the belief that the 2020 Presidential Election had been “stolen” from President Trump. While there is no concrete evidence to support that notion, following the election, an intense mobilization effort occurred on multiple avenues which eventually lead to a deadly riot at the United States Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. The Stop the Steal movement often utilized social media to promote unfounded claims of electoral fraud and irregularities. This thesis conducts a content analysis, utilizing measures of nominal association to analyze tweets that appeared on leaders’ feed within the Stop the Steal movement from the election through January 6. A specific focus was placed on examining the association of election-related content, January 6-related content, electoral misinformation, electoral calls to action, and violent rhetoric surrounding the election within tweets. Further, the prevalence of these variables regarding the total number of engagements a tweet received was explored. There is a high level of association between tweets that mention the election and those same tweets containing electoral misinformation. However, the association was not as strong between those that mention January 6 and contain electoral misinformation, and those that mention January 6 and contain violent electoral rhetoric. There is a moderate correlation between tweets containing calls to action and violent rhetoric regarding the election. Further, tweets that contained electoral misinformation and those that mentioned the election received significant engagement.en_US
AdvisorLindsay Hoffman
ProgramPolitical Science
URLhttps://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/31124
PublisherUniversity of Delawareen_US
KeywordsFar-right groupsen_US
KeywordsStop the Steal Movementen_US
KeywordsJanuary 6en_US
KeywordsSocial mediaen_US
KeywordsMisinformationen_US
TitlePerception And Mobilization Of “Truth” January 6, 2021, Stop The Steal, And Social Mediaen_US
TypeThesisen_US
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