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> twitter bans have very little effect, from the covid misinformation to ukraine stuff This is false, the ban on Trump had a massive effect on online misinform
by phailhaus 4y ago
> twitter bans have very little effect, from the covid misinformation to ukraine stuff
This is false, the ban on Trump had a massive effect on online misinformation. [1] Platforms really do matter.
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/16/misinformation-trump-twitter/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/16/misinfo...
- seydor 4y agothey are counting twitter retweets after they banned twitterers. how is that even a valid claim
- phailhaus 4y agoEr, no? That's not at all what the article says. > 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. > Zignal found that the use of hashtags affiliated with the Capitol riot also dipped considerably