Partisan Differences in Twitter Language Among US Legislators During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As policy makers continue to shape the national and local responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, the information they choose to share and how they frame their content provide key insights into the public and health care systems.

Objective

We examined the language used by the members of the US House and Senate during the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic and measured content and sentiment based on the tweets that they shared.

Methods

We used Quorum (Quorum Analytics Inc) to access more than 300,000 tweets posted by US legislators from January 1 to October 10, 2020. We used differential language analyses to compare the content and sentiment of tweets posted by legislators based on their party affiliation.

Results

We found that health care-related t

SUBMITTER: Guntuku SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8176946 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature