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Social Media Sanctions Hit Conservatives More, But Due to Content Sharing, Study Says
A study published in Nature has found that conservative social media users were more likely to face sanctions, but attributes this to their higher propensity to share low-quality news rather than political bias. Researchers analyzed 9,000 Twitter users during the 2020 U.S. election, finding pro-Trum...
A study published in Nature has found that conservative social media users were more likely to face sanctions, but attributes this to their higher propensity to share low-quality news rather than political bias. However, they also shared significantly more links from sites rated as untrustworthy by both politically balanced groups and Republican-only panels. The study concludes that asymmetric enforcement can result from neutral policies when behavior differs between groups.
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