Published 3 years ago

Misinformation Gets Six Times More Clicks on Facebook

Summary by Ground News

New York University researchers discovered scathing new data on the spread of misinformation on Facebook. The study found that from August 2020 to January 2021, misinformation got six times more clicks on Facebook than posts containing factual news. Misinformation accounted for the vast majority of engagement with far right posts — 68% — compared to 36% of posts coming from the far left.

0 Articles

All

Left

Center

Right

NDTV

Facebook Algorithm Fuelled Misinformation Spread Over Factual News: Study

Study found that news publishers known for releasing misinformation got six times more “likes, shares, and interactions” on Facebook.

3 years ago·New Delhi, India

Read Full Article

CNN

New study: Misinformation gets 6x more clicks than news

In an exclusive study from NYU's Cybersecurity for Democracy effort, lead researcher Laura Edelson shares new findings into the proliferation of misinformation on Facebook, particularly with posts on the far-right. Edelson also shares how Facebook as a company has hampered their efforts to research data on the platform adding "we couldn't even replicate this study ourselves, right now, if we tried."

3 years ago·Atlanta, United States

Read Full Article

The Washington Post

Misinformation on Facebook got six times more clicks than factual news during the 2020 election, study says

News publishers on Facebook that trafficked in misinformation in the months preceding and immediately following the 2020 election got six times the number of likes and shares as pages that publish factual news, according to a forthcoming peer-reviewed study by New York University and the Université Grenoble Alpes.

3 years ago

Read Full Article

KRDO

Researchers studying Facebook misinformation say they were deplatformed

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN BusinessNew York University researchers discovered scathing new data on the spread of misinformation on Facebook, despite the site curtailing their research, even going so far as deplatforming them.The study found that from August 2020 to January 2021, misinformation got six times more clicks on Facebook than posts containing factual news. Misinformation also accounted for the vast majority of engagement with far right pos…

3 years ago·Colorado Springs, United States

Read Full Article