To find the historical number of followers, The Post accessed archived copies of profile pages maintained by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Not all of the influencers had accounts on all of the platforms, and data was not always archived consistently; data in the Wayback Machine is usually saved when specifically requested by a user, so follower counts may be archived for several days in a row, then not again for weeks or even a few months. All counts were updated in January 2022 by The Post.
How we tracked right-wing influencers’ audience numbers
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