Misinformation dropped 73 percent after Trumps Twitter ban along with some of his allies

I guess Trump and his friends where fake news all along.... no shit. lol

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/16/misinformation-trump-twitter/

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.

That's because DARVO, they spread misinformation and fake news and are self consciously projecting their known insecurities on others.

Not surprising at all.

And it's not just because Trump has stopped lying. It's because his cultists have no new lies to spread.

That's the real issue, imo. People lying is not new; it's the rate at which the lie spreads, and how believable (to some) the lie is, especially when the media either goes along with it, or doesn't call it out.

@mrbojangles25: Lie big, lie repeatedly, and they become self reinforcing. Each instance corroborates the others in a circle.

It's almost like these lies were reinforced from the top down a lot of the time. What a shock.

Yeah Trumpers love their misinformation.

Hahahahaha This is to good to be true. President of lies.

Does anyone here have a link to the study itself? Rather than journalists reporting on it? I would like to read on the methodology.

Specifically, if sites like Parler, and other alternatives were used for the data.

Not that I doubt that banning Trump didn't work. But this could give a more clear image.

@Maroxad: the group is called Zignal Labs, they appear to be a business that helps businesses search for developing stories across the internet about their clients or their clients' services and products so that they can take intervening steps to get ahead of the developing narratives, they even say in selling their service they don't really deal with true or false just what pertains to the companies and their products and services... so curious how they can make such an assertion themselves.

I would imagine generating search algorithms to make such assertions would be far to complex to be considered accurate, and would run risk to deem just talk of the subject of misinformation as misinformation (YouTube's AI did that). My guess it would be far simpler to have access to social media websites and moderation stats and report on that. If we learned anything about the Cambridge Analytica these websites have scary amount of data and they pretty much give third parties access to whatever, so just me speculating but I would guess they would likely make such assertions based on moderation data.

“It’s not misinformation, it’s censorship of conservative voices!”

In other words, spreading misinformation is basically a pyramid scheme.

That's a really elegant and accurate way to put it, yeah I think it is a lot like a pyramid scheme.