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According to Demos Research Center, in July, Twitter registered almost 7,000 Islamic messages daily.

The report shows the impressive amount of islamophobic messages tripled in the two months. Especially, after the terrorist attacks from Nice, Dallas and the failed coup attempt from Turkey.

The British Research Group analyzed the messages posted between March and July and discovered that 215,247 messages had anti-Islamic, deprecatory or an influenced by hate content.

In Europe, most messages were posted by users from UK, Holland, France or Germany.

According to Demos, on July 15, users all around the world the social network by storm posting 21,190 messages, generating the largest spike of the month.

The media frenzy generated after a man plowed a cargo truck into crowds on the seafront in Nice, killing 85 people.

The second large round of anti-Islamic posts was registered on July 8 with a total number of 11,320 messages, right after the American army officer, Micah Xavier Johnson shot five of his colleagues.

“This is the highest monthly average since measurements began at the end of February,” the report said.

“However, the rate of anti-Islamic activity on Twitter significantly changed over the month. Twitter is, in general, a real-time, reactive and event-specific platform, and most of the anti-Islamic activity identified was likewise linked to an event that had recently happened”, added one of the researchers.

Following the last terrorist attacks, almost 60,000 people from the UK posted Islamophobic messages and the most used words were “angry, severely derogatory and explicitly anti-Islamic”.