ABSTRACT
Alternative government social media accounts have grown in number and size since the 2016 presidential election. Although both official and AltGov accounts purport to provide useful information for audiences interested in government and policy, there is presently no research on the types of information those accounts provide nor on the types of audiences they attract. The present research attempts to fill that gap through analytic analysis of the accounts. The accounts are found to have different foci for content as well as divergent audiences.
