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Why the president's anti-Muslim tweets could increase tensions

  • Written by Michael Pasek, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Pennsylvania State University
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Last week, President Trump retweeted to his nearly 44 million followers a series of videos purporting to show Muslims assaulting people and destroying Christian statues. These videos, originally shared by an extremist anti-Muslim group in the U.K., were shown to be inaccurate and misleading.

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