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Eric Zemmour's “takeover bid” on the LR and RN twittosphere

2021-12-16T17:47:27.215Z


FIG DATA - From the start of September until Villepinte's speech, the candidate has sucked up a large part of right-wing political Twitter. Will the trend be sustained over time?


A little from the Republican electorate, and a little from that of the National Rally, or even a lot of both.

This is where the candidate Eric Zemmour seems to draw his voting intentions in the polls, as

Fig Data

analyzed in November.

But there is a network, Twitter, where the former journalist is also emulating.

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The little blue bird of the web, invested by political parties and the media, can act as a political barometer, if it is analyzed with the biases it entails.

This is the task that the Institute of Complex Systems (ISC-PIF) has been working on for a little over five years.

Twitter data (

of half a million),

nearly a million French accounts collected by the ISC-PIF, in fact make it possible to define political communities, according to the engagement rates and retweets of political figures. .

Latest observation of the institute: the political re-entry was marked by many movements, especially on the right, and jostled by the emergence of Eric Zemmour.

The rights shaken up

In other electoral periods, researchers have already had the opportunity to observe mergers between the RN and LR communities (

for example)

.

Lately, “

what is astonishing is that a personality succeeds

in imposing its themes…

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Source: lefigaro

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