San Francisco:The social media ban on outgoing US President Donald Trump has resulted in a massive 73 per cent drop in online misinformation about election fraud, a new report has revealed.
The research by the San Francisco-based analytics firm Zignal Labs found 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 on Twitter on January 8.
According to The Washington Post, the findings highlight how falsehoods flow across social media sites.
Zignal found that the use of hashtags affiliated with the January 6 Capitol riot also dipped considerably.
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"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 per cent. #HoldTheLine and the term 'March for Trump' also fell more than 95 per cent," the report said on Sunday.
"Together, those actions will likely significantly reduce the amount of online misinformation in the near term," Kate Starbird, disinformation researcher at the University of Washington, was quoted as saying.