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. 2022;127(3):1643-1655.
doi: 10.1007/s11192-021-04243-z. Epub 2022 Jan 16.

Trump's COVID-19 tweets and Dr. Fauci's emails

David E Allen  1   2   3 , Michael McAleer  2   4   5   6   7
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Trump's COVID-19 tweets and Dr. Fauci's emails

David E Allen et al. Scientometrics. 2022.

Abstract

The paper features an analysis of former President Trump's early tweets on COVID-19 in the context of Dr. Fauci's recently revealed email trove. The tweets are analysed using various data mining techniques, including sentiment analysis. These techniques facilitate exploration of content and sentiments within the texts, and their potential implications for the national and international reaction to COVID-19. The data set or corpus includes 159 tweets on COVID-19 that are sourced from the Trump Twitter Archive, running from 24 January 2020 to 2 April 2020. In addition we use Zipf and Mandelbrot's power law to calibrate the extent to which they differ from normal language patterns. A context for the emails is provided by the recently revealed email trove of Dr. Fauci, obtained by Buzzfeed on 1 June 2021 obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

Keywords: COVID 19; Dr Fauci emails; Sentiment analysis; Stock market; Text mining; Trump; Tweets; Word cloud.

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President trump tweets COVID-19
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Most frequent words bar chart
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Sentiment analysis of president trump’s tweets on the COVID-19
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Emotional valence of tweets on COVID-19
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Estimation of Zipf law relationship
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References

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    1. Allen DE, McAleer M. Fake news and indifference to scientific fact: President trump’s confused tweets on global warming. Climate Change and Weather, Scientometrics. 2018;117(1):625–629.
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