Sam Bestvater

CTL-E-2897 · Person · scholar · 2020s

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Computational social scientist at the Pew Research Center. Led the analysis behind the Center's 2023 report on ten years of #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter, finding about one-third of 2013–2021 tweets no longer accessible; noted social platforms "weren't really designed to be cultural archives."

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Sam Bestvater is a computational social scientist at the Pew Research Center.

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#BlackLivesMatter tweet decay — related to → this record

Sources

Pew Research Center — "Social Media, Online Activism and 10 Years of #BlackLivesMatter" (2023-06-29) (primary source)
Headline USA — "Study: Over a Third of Old BLM Tweets Are Unavailable"

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