Trump's First 'Chinese Virus' Tweet Preceded Jump In Anti-Asian Speech

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Watch VideoA year into the pandemic, anti-Asian discrimination on social media is still shaping real world speech. A recent study of Twitter data found a dramatic increase in the use of the hashtag #chinesevirus, along with anti-Asian rhetoric, in the days after then-President Trump first tweeted it.

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