Fig. 3: The ideological spectra for COP21 and COP26 recomputed using equal numbers of minority and majority influencers.
From: Growing polarization around climate change on social media
Majority (minority) influencers are listed on the left (right) of each panel. The influencers selected must appear in both the COP21 and COP26 datasets. Influencer polarization is similar between COP21 and COP26, but user polarization (that is, distribution bimodality) increases significantly. This reflects a large increase in user engagement with the ideological minority during COP26 (that is, minority influencers are attracting a disproportionately large fraction of retweets in COP26 relative to COP21). More detail is provided in Supplementary Section 1G. Active users with fewer than 30,000 followers indicated with @_______, excluding elected politicians (@RogerHelmerMEP).
