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U of S prof to study COVID-related racist tweets directed at Asian community 5:03 PM (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM file photo) Has the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to more racists attacks against Asian people online? That’s what a University of Saskatchewan assistant linguistics professor and his team want to figure out. Over the next year, Zhi Li and his team, along with the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (SHRC), are going to try and figure out what constitutes a racist tweet and where they come from. They’ll be looking at 80 million tweets that originate in Canada beginning in October 2019 and continuing...
