Disinformation on the topic of election fraud fell by 73 percent thereafter President Trump
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The research firm reported that the election fraud discourse dropped from 2.5 million mentions on social media platforms to nearly 688,000, following the president’s permanent suspension of Twitter, according to The Washington Post.
Twitter first banned Trump’s account shortly after a violent mob of his supporters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6. The platform said it was concerned that Trump’s future posts would incite more violence after the Capitol riots left five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer. .
Twitter announced after Trump’s ban that it had also banned more than 70,000 accounts related to the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Facebook has indefinitely suspended Trump’s account until at least the president-elect Joe Biden
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The investigation examined online misinformation from Jan. 1 to Jan. 8, the week prior to Trump’s suspension, and misinformation in the week after Trump’s suspension from Jan. 9 to Jan. 15, according to the Post.
While on social media, Trump repeatedly claimed that the 2020 election was “faked” and “stolen” because of widespread voter fraud. However, state and federal election officials and former Attorney General Bill Barr have stated that there was no substantial evidence of widespread voter fraud.
Popular hashtags used to spread misinformation about election fraud also declined significantly over the same period, according to the survey, including #FightForTrump, which dropped 95.5 percent, and #HoldTheLine, which dropped 94.3 percent.
While election fraud conspiracy theories have gone online, “Qanon” and “Q” mentions are up 15 percent. Many who attacked the Capitol claimed to be followers of Qanon conspiracy theories.
However, other popular Qanon phrases such as “We Are the New Snow” and “QanonJapanFlynn” went down 98.6 percent and 95.5 percent, respectively.
After Trump was banned, he said he would move to a new social media platform or create his own. Jared Kushner
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