Online misinformation about the US election fell by as much as 73% in the week after President Trump was booted from Twitter and other social media sites.
According to findings by Zignal Labs, conversations about election fraud fell from 2.5 million mentions to 688,000 across several social media sites. The research house looked at conversations that spanned fraud, hacked machines, tampered ballots, and other conspiracies.
The data indicates that tech platforms’ ability to restrict the spread falsehoods is an effective approach to containing misinformation online. Continue reading.