 Moody analyzed more than 20 Facebook groups/pages using the keywords "hate", "Barack Obama", and "Michelle Obama".Hate groups—which once recruited members through word of mouth and distribution of pamphlets—spread the message that one race is inferior, targeted a historically oppressed group, and used degrading, hateful terms.She concluded that historical stereotypes focusing on diet and blackface had all but disappeared from mainstream television shows and movies, but they had resurfaced in new-media representations.