On Facebook, Misinformation Is Much More Popular Now Compared to 2016
Throughout the 2016 presidential election, Russian operatives used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter along with other social networking platforms to spread disinformation to split the American electorate. Since that time, the social networking companies have spent vast amounts of dollars and hired thousands of individuals to help cleanup their act.
But possess the platforms really be sophisticated at handling misinformation?
Not always.
Individuals are engaging more about Facebook today with news outlets that routinely publish misinformation compared to what they did prior to the 2016 election, based on new information in the German Marshall Fund Digital, digital arm from the public policy think tank. The business, with a data partnership using the start-up NewsGuard and also the socia...