Published January 16, 2026
National Public Radio featured the research expertise of Yini Zhang, assistant professor of communication, in a report on how the Trump administration is creating and sharing online content to justify and support its increasingly aggressive immigration policies. "The strategy looks more like continuous campaigning, more so than the controlled and toned down communication we typically would associate with a governing administration," said Yini Zhang, a University at Buffalo professor who studies political communications on social media. "Volume is a feature, because they can post very frequently and they can shape agenda and framing in real time."
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