That's not a scientific study but a report from a no profit and the method and data has not been reviewed.

It's not like those hashtags were even banned, so what's the point here?

It's also likely that demographics between the apps are different.

belief laundering, as if “network contagion research institute” is some long-standing research org and not basically an extension of the state like the “Atlantic Council”

anyone with half a statistics brain can see the problems in this analysis