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After convicted criminal and twice indicted former president Donald Trump and 70,000 other accounts were booted from Twitter following the January 6 riots, the spread of misleading information on the platform fell.
With social media increasingly consuming people's attention at the expense of conventional media such as newspapers, radio, and television, its impact on political discourse is under the spotlight. After the accounts were taken off Twitter, researchers found an average daily reduction of 103 tweets associated with misinformation URLs when analyzing posts between June 2020 and January 2021. Users who followed the banned accounts were likely to share less misinformation to other users after the misinformation accounts were removed, the study revealed.
"However, content suppression results in difficult business decisions for tech companies. It is well-established that social media users post a considerable volume of misinformation, and that political content is more engaging and extreme content perhaps especially so.
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