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I catalogued Russians' social media responses to Bucha for @JournalGenocide and what I found was almost unspeakable. In short, I assessed 300 comments about Bucha from 3 nationalist social media groups posted in the 48 hours after news broke. I rated posts based on whether they disagreed with Russian actions, reiterated/agreed with them, or encouraged Russians to commit more acts of violence. https://twitter.com/irgarner/status/1524109725222293505 sourced from: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2022.2074020
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