Tweeting rage: How immigration policies can polarize public discourse. A study of tweets in the months before and after the 2010 passage of Arizona's "Show me your papers" law, findings showed that the average tweet about Mexican immigrants and Hispanics, in general, became more negative. Researchers said the social media data was useful in determining whether people had changed their attitudes about immigrants as a result of the law or whether they had begun behaving differently. Source 7s.

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