How social media writes about internally displaced people and refugees

How social media writes about internally displaced people and refugees

An analysis of nearly eight thousand Facebook and Telegram posts published between January and July 2026 found that vulnerable groups rarely speak for themselves on social media. Instead, they are mostly spoken about by those who (supposedly) help them. Key findings On Facebook and Telegram, internally displaced people are mentioned 3.6 times more often than refugees (5,840 versus 1,619 mentions among the analyzed focus posts). In posts about in…