How Anti-Asian Activity Online Set the Stage for Real-World Violence

Misinformation linking the coronavirus to anti-Asian beliefs also rose last year. Since last March, there have been nearly eight million mentions of anti-Asian speech online, much of it falsehoods, according to Zignal Labs…In one example, an…article was liked and shared more than one million times on Facebook and retweeted 78,800 times on Twitter, according to data from Zignal.