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Following a lack of assisted communications for d\/Deaf people during the COVID-19 pandemic, a Twitter hashtag campaign, #WhereIsTheInterpreter, was launched in the UK, protesting the lack of accessibility during official press briefings around the epidemic. The campaign received support from across the globe. This study analyzes the discourse around the campaign in tweets published from March 1st, 2020 and September 30th, 2021 (\n                    <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 27,021) and analyzed the corpus using the Analysis of Topic Model Network (ANTMN) approach. 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