IT’S POTEMKIN RIOTS ALL THE WAY DOWN: Social media analysis suggests links between Baltimore and Ferguson violence.
An analysis of social media traffic in downtown Baltimore Monday has unearthed striking connections to the protests in Ferguson, Mo. last year, according to a leading data mining firm that shared its findings exclusively with Fox News.
The firm, which asked to remain anonymous because of its government work, found between 20 and 50 social media accounts in Baltimore that were also tied to the peak period of violence in Ferguson. While further analysis is being conducted on the data, it suggests the presence of “professional protesters” or anarchists taking advantage of Freddie Gray’s death to incite more violence.
Probably Worker’s World or Revolutionary Communist Party types rather than “anarchists.”