Will misinformation on social media platforms get blocked this election season? With vague policies that often aren't enforced, it's hard to say.
On Facebook, searching "ballot mules" yielded a recent recording of a live broadcast with multiple falsehoods about the 2020 election. One of the accounts that shared it is from a candidate for state representative in Arizona.Labeling is a popular way for platforms to warn users about misinformation without taking it down. Removing content makes people suspicious, said DiResta, so they can become curious and go searching for it on unmonitored platforms such as Rumble.
"It’s hard. How do you do that at scale?" said Harbath. "It’s a lot more time-intensive, human-intensive to actually fact-check things.""Access to data is super limited, so we don't really get good insight into the full true scope of misinformation that's out there on social media," said Rachel Moran, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington who specializes in how people respond to social media misinformation.
"And those people are happy Facebook users, are happy TikTok users, and so they're profitable, so they're not necessarily going to measure something that might undermine their potential profit margin," said Moran. "They're not public institutions, even though a lot of what they do is now in the public trust," said Brooking, who specializes in disinformation and internet policy.Many platforms, including Twitter and Facebook, have newsworthiness or public-interest exceptions, meaning they don’t strike false content from prominent people.
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