Twitter put warning labels on hundreds of thousands of tweets. Our research examined which worked best
Recently, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on misinformation and the 2020 election. Republicans and Democrats alike grilled the pair for more than four hours, especially on how they moderate what can be shared on their platforms and how they enforce policy violations.
Senators especially asked Dorsey about Twitter’s decision to label President Trump’s tweets as false or misleading. Republicans accused Twitter of bias against conservatives, while Democrats blamed it for allowing misinformation’s spread online.
What did Twitter do — and did its efforts successfully stop misinformation from spreading? We investigated — and found that while blocking tweets from spreading was successful, tweets with warning labels continued to spread, although less on average than tweets without warning labels.… Seguir leyendo »