A counter-intuitive finding emerges from an analysis of Arabic Twitter posts from 2014 to 2015: Twitter participants who are negative toward the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) are also more likely to hold negative views of the United States. This surprising correlation is due to the interpretations of two sets of users. One set of users views the United States and ISIS negatively as independent interventionist powers in the region. The other set of users negatively links the United States with ISIS, often asserting a secretive conspiracy between the two. The intense negativity toward the United States in the Middle East seems conducive to views that, in one way or another, cause citizens to link the United States and ISIS in a conspiratorial manner.

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我的敌人的敌人不是我的朋友：阿拉伯推特对 ISIS 和美国的情绪

对 2014 年至 2015 年的阿拉伯推特帖子的分析得出了一个反直觉的发现：对伊拉克和黎凡特伊斯兰国 (ISIS) 持负面态度的推特参与者也更有可能对美国持负面看法。这种令人惊讶的相关性是由于两组用户的解释。一组用户将美国和 ISIS 视为该地区独立的干涉主义力量。另一组用户将美国与 ISIS 联系在一起，经常声称两者之间存在秘密阴谋。中东对美国的强烈消极情绪似乎有利于以某种方式导致公民以阴谋方式将美国和 ISIS 联系起来的观点。