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Misinformation spread differently than most content on Facebook during the 2020 election
New research reveals how misinformation about the 2020 election spread differently than most content on Facebook.
New research from Northeastern University offers some answers — finding misinformation spread very differently than most content on Facebook during the 2020 election season, relying on gradual, peer-to-peer sharing from a smaller number of users in the wake of crackdowns on misinformation from Pages and Groups on the social media platform. “Our inference is that this is likely because the content moderation policy by Facebook focused in 2020 on pages and groups,” Lazer continues. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern UniversityTo examine how such misinformation (distinguished as content labeled “false” by third-party fact checkers) spread on Facebook, Lazer and colleagues analyzed all posts shared at least once from summer 2020 through Feb. 1, 2021, on the social media platform and mapped out their distribution network.
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