Can social media rhetoric incite hate incidents? Evidence from Trump's "Chinese Virus" tweets

被引：12

作者：

Cao, Andy ^{[1
]}

Lindo, Jason M. ^{[2
,3
,4
]}

Zhong, Jiee ^{[5
]}

机构：

[1] CNA, New York, NY USA

[2] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Econ, Atlanta, GA USA

[3] NBER, Cambridge, MA USA

[4] IZA, Bonn, Germany

[5] Texas A&M Univ, Dept Econ, College Stn, TX 77843 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS | 2023年 / 137卷

关键词：

Discrimination; Social media; Hate incidents; Trump; CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jue.2023.103590

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

We investigate whether Donald Trump's "Chinese Virus" tweets contributed to the rise of anti-Asian incidents. We find that the number of incidents spiked following Trump's initial "Chinese Virus" tweets and the subsequent dramatic rise in internet search activity for the phrase. Difference-in-differences and event-study analyses leveraging spatial variation indicate that this spike in anti-Asian incidents was significantly more pronounced in counties that supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election relative to those that supported Hillary Clinton. We estimate that anti-Asian incidents spiked by approximately 4200% in Trump-supported counties compared to an increase of approximately 200% in Clinton-supported counties.

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