2021 Twitter ban on 70,000+ false info traffickers led to reduced misinformation, per UC Riverside study in Nature.
Twitter's ban on 70,000+ false info traffickers post-US Capitol violence in 2021 led to reduced misinformation posts, according to a UC Riverside study published in Nature. The study also found that many traffickers, including QAnon conspiracy theorists, left Twitter voluntarily after the ban. The research asserts that this had a significant spillover effect on public discourse.
June 05, 2024
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