Mass shootings trigger starkly different congressional responses on social media along party lines, NYY Tandon study finds
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After mass shootings, Democrats are nearly four times more likely than Republicans to post about guns on social media, according to research from NYU Tandon School of Engineering. The study analyzed the full two-year term of the 117th Congress using computational methods designed to distinguish true cause-and-effect relationships from mere coincidence.
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