African-American social media users are nearly twice as likely as whites to see posts on social networks about race or race relations, at 68 percent and 35 percent, respectively, according to Pew Research Center.
Pew?s new study, Social Media Conversations About Race, also found that 28 percent of African-American social media users said some or most of what they post is about race and race relations, compared with 8 percent of white users, adding that 67 percent of white users said nothing they post or share pertains to race.
Hispanics fell in the middle, with 54 percent saying some of the posts they see are about race or race relations, and 44 percent saying they saw few or no posts on those topics.

Pew teamed up with Crimson Hexagon to analyze some 995 million tweets about race posted to Twitter from Jan. 1, 2015, through March 31, 2016. They found that while no single day had fewer than 1.5 million related tweets on the subject, activity spiked on the days immediately following major events, such as the church shooting in Charleston, S.C., and the unrest following the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
Pew and Crimson Hexagon also found that:

60 percent of the tweets they studied were directly related to news and current events.
10 percent were related to the 2016 presidential election.
7 percent were about issues with law enforcement or the judicial system.
7 percent were related to pop-culture events.

Pew also pointed out that the most-used hashtag in Twitter?s...