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@TheEconomist is a X / Twitter creator with 262M followers, tracked by ViralHunt since June 2026. Across 67 tracked posts they have accumulated 49.6K total engagement — an average of 741 per post. Their engagement over the last 30 days is up 4201% versus the previous month.

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23.5Ktotal likes

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Colombia’s new president is paying for his foolish refusal to co-operate with the handover process initiated by the previous government. The

Aug 14, 2026

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AI promises to change the world for the better—and the backlash against it is dangerous. Here are four ways to deal with it http://econ.st/4

Jun 25, 2026

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Donald Trump has taken to portraying Venezuela’s stability as one of his great strategic successes. Register for free to read why the earthq

Jun 30, 2026

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From sabotage attacks to assisting Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, poses a unique security

Aug 3, 2026

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McDonald’s Big Macs can tell you more about the global economy than you might think. Forty years ago The Economist began comparing the price

Aug 1, 2026

VIE 60.9K LIK 111 REP 28 REP 12

How is American democracy faring in the era of Donald Trump? For our new podcast “Tocqueville Road Trip”, we retraced the steps of Alexis de

Jun 12, 2026

VIE 100.7K LIK 58 REP 16 REP 18

The scenarios keeping AI bosses awake at night are no longer purely hypothetical

Aug 3, 2026

VIE 41.5K LIK 62 REP 19 REP 8

Sometimes the best footballers flop at World Cups. On the grandest stage they can turn out not to be the best after all, champions of hype r

Jun 30, 2026

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The visa website of a country renowned for its people’s IT skills resembles a Geocities page from 1999. Register for free to discover why it

Jul 1, 2026

VIE 26.7K LIK 50 REP 12 REP 3

The administration now controls who gets access to the best models

Jun 30, 2026

VIE 29.6K LIK 27 REP 19 REP 3

Quantum computers will be able to break today’s encryption systems. Fortunately, a fix already exists. Companies and government should imple

Aug 3, 2026

VIE 35.8K LIK 31 REP 11 REP 3

Latin Americans identify as more right-wing than they have in more than two decades, show polling data from 18 countries

Jun 30, 2026

VIE 29.9K LIK 27 REP 9 REP 11

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