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I explored the truckers’ protests in Ottawa by studying the discussions on Twitter. I searched for 6 supportive and neutral hashtags from January 1 until February 20, 2022 (TruckersForFreedom2022 OR #IStandWithTruckers OR #FreedomTruckers OR #istandwiththetruckers OR #Truckersforfreedomconvoy2022 OR #TruckersConvoy2022), and the total number of collected tweets were 1,379,282 (data from February 15 is missing). Interestingly, I examined the self-proclaimed locations of users, and this is what they mostly stated (the bigger the bubble means the more recurrent the location is). As we can see above, the majority of users are from Canada.

However, when I examined the most used languages, I was surprised to find that Dutch and German languages come immediately after English and French, indicating the kind of support the movement got from the Netherlands and Germany.