“Some scholars consider hate crimes to be akin to an infectious disease, spreading from person to person, community to community. A New York University study suggests how hate is spread with violent impact. This study examined 532 million tweets from 100 American cities and found that the more race-based hate speech there was on Twitter, the higher were the rates of actual hate crime. This study was conducted five years before the Trump presidency began; it's patently clear we should be even more concerned about similar mechanisms driving the rising hate crime today.”

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