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January 17, 2021 05:04 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/N61hPm23EC8/online-misinformation-dropped-dramatically-after-twitter-banned-trump
Online Misinformation Dropped Dramatically After Twitter Banned Trump
The Washington Post reports:Online misinformation about election fraud plunged 73 percent after several social media sites suspended President Trump and key allies last week, research firm Zignal Labs has found, underscoring the power of tech companies to limit the falsehoods poisoning public debate when they act aggressively. The new research by the San Francisco-based analytics firm reported that conversations about election fraud dropped from 2.5 million mentions to 688,000 mentions across several social media sites in the week after Trump was banned from Twitter... The findings, from Jan. 9 through Friday, highlight how falsehoods flow across social media sites — reinforcing and amplifying each other — and offer an early indication of how concerted actions against misinformation can make a difference. Kate Starbird, disinformation researcher at the University of Washington, also warned the Post that "What happens in the long term is still up in the air."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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