Election Misinformation Online Fell by 73% After Trumps Accounts Got Banned

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Online misinformation about election fraud plunged 73 percent after several social media sites suspended President Trump and key allies last week, research firm Zignal Labs has found, underscoring the power of tech companies to limit the falsehoods poisoning public debate when they act aggressively.

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.

Election disinformation had for months been a major subject of online misinformation, beginning even before the Nov. 3 election and pushed heavily by Trump and his allies.

Zignal found it dropped swiftly and steeply on Twitter and other platforms in the days after the Twitter ban took hold on Jan. 8.

The president and his supporters also have lost accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch, Spotify, Shopify and others. Facebook called Trump’s suspension “indefinite” but left open the possibility that the account could later be restored.

The findings, from Jan. 9 through Friday, highlight how falsehoods flow across social media sites — reinforcing and amplifying each other — and offer an early indication of how concerted actions against misinformation can make a difference.

Twitter’s ban of Trump on Jan. 8, after years in which @realDonaldTrump was a potent online megaphone, has been particularly significant in curbing his ability to push misleading claims about what state and federal officials have called a free and fair election on Nov. 3.

Trump’s banishment was followed by other actions by social media sites, including Twitter’s ban of more than 70,000 accountsaffiliated with the baseless QAnon ideology, which played a key role in fomenting the Capitol siege on Jan. 6.

“Together, those actions will likely significantly reduce the amount of online misinformation in the near term,” said Kate Starbird, disinformation researcher at the University of Washington. “What happens in the long term is still up in the air.”

Zignal found that the use of hashtags affiliated with the Capitol riot also dipped considerably. Mentions of the hashtag #FightforTrump, which was widely deployed across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media services in the week before the rally, dropped 95 percent. #HoldTheLine and the term “March for Trump” also fell more than 95 percent.

The research by Zignal and other groups suggests that a powerful, integrated disinformation ecosystem — composed of high-profile influencers, rank-and-file followers and Trump himself — was central to pushing millions of Americans to reject the election results and may have trouble surviving without his social media accounts.

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[bionic 50,111]

He’s the king of fake news and king of projecting 

[Standing-o 198]

makes sense.

[xoxo Craig 55,649]

What a coincidence 

[holy scheisse 22,963]

"fake news" and "alternative facts" weren't even household phrases until trump. Who woulda guessed? (Not to say facetious journalism didn't exist beforehand but u know what I mean)

[SonOfAphrodite 1,838]

Water is wet

Piss is yellow 

Chromatica is over 

this was expected  

[Chromatican 4,046]

Time to destroy his legacy. No mercy on Trumpers.

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

You cut off the head of the snake...surprised there's no more venom for him to spew???

He projected all of these conspiracies about himself and rightfully so people have calmed tf down with this election fraud bs

[LaLuna 12,732]

That's great but all the QAnon loonies won't disappear overnight. The movement has gained millions of followers, they still exist and they can still plot more attacks and coups. We cannot assume they've all calmed down just because their "savior" has no platform to spread his conspiracy theories and fascist rhetoric.

[vyniildisk 12,689]

1 minute ago, LaLuna said:

That's great but all the QAnon loonies won't disappear overnight. The movement has gained millions of followers, they still exist and they can still plot more attacks and coups. We cannot assume they've all calmed down just because their "savior" has no platform to spread his conspiracy theories and fascist rhetoric.

wtf is QAnon guys? i see it everywhere, its like anonymous or sumn?

[OhHenny2020 2,822]

 

[PartySick 173,101]

34 minutes ago, Dulo Peep said:

wtf is QAnon guys? i see it everywhere, its like anonymous or sumn?

It's an alt-right conspiracy group that believes Democrats (and some Republicans) run a global child sex trafficking ring and worship Satan. They're the same people that accused Gaga of grinding up children's bones to make drugs or some sh*t. Donald Trump is supposedly their white knight who will put an end to it.

Most, if not all of them, are also Neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

[vyniildisk 12,689]

3 minutes ago, PartySick said:

It's an alt-right conspiracy group that believes Democrats (and some Republicans) run a global child sex trafficking ring and worship Satan. They're the same people that accused Gaga of grinding up children's bines to make drugs or some sh*t. Donald Trump is supposedly their white knight who will put an end to it.

Most, if not all of them, are also Neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

Wow, i see jokes about it all the time but i was very confused, i thought they were hackers or something similar. Thank you.

[PartySick 173,101]

Just now, Dulo Peep said:

Wow, i see jokes about it all the time but i was very confused, i thought they were hackers or something similar. Thank you.

Nah, they're smart enough for that

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this won‘t last long. arrest him. the world needs to heal longterm.