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SOCIAL MEDIA

Censorship

Censorship

Conservative pages and accounts have an enormous presence with huge engagement, and are not being “shut down”or “hidden” en masse by tech companies like they would have you believe

• Media Matters: Martinez 18
  • Right-leaning pages in total have a bigger presence on Facebook
  • Right-leaning pages had 23% more total interactions than nonaligned pages and 51% more total interactions than left-leaning pages.

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Misinformation

Misinformation

Media outlets often spread misinformation and bias without refuting it

• ScienceMag: Guess et al. 19
  • Study examining the prevalence of fake news shared over facebook.
  • “Conservatives were more likely to share articles from fake news domains,” which are examined thoroughly in the methodology.
  • These domains, in 2016, were “largely pro-Trump in orientation”
  • “On average, users over 65 shared nearly seven times as many articles from fake news domains as the youngest age group.”

• https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/study-false-news-spreads-faster-truth

• Media Bias Chart
  • With a very thorough methodological analysis (adfontes)