Seminario CEDE - Tomás Rodríguez
In this paper we study the relationship between ideological segregation in Twitter and external events in the context of the "estallido social" of 2021 in Colombia. We analyze the tweeting behavior of approximately 37,000 users active in political discussions during the two most intense months of the 2021 "estallido social" in Colombia, supplemented by event data from ACLED. Our findings reveal a significant increase in political segregation within daily weighted and directed re-tweet networks of right, left, and center groups during spikes in street violence.