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Across platforms, accounts that have repeatedly shared misinformation receive more interactions per post per followers than high-credibility accounts; LinkedIn being the exception.
This report examines the financial infrastructure that enables misinformation in Europe through a broad analysis of advertising and monetization practices across major social media platforms and services offering ads on the open web (Facebook, Twitter/X, YouTube and Google Display Ads).
given the ease with which such illegal content was discovered, Meta, Google, X/Twitter, TikTok and Telegram’s compliance teams should investigate why they seem not to have taken sufficient action to limit access.
Analysis of YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram data in the run-up to the 2024 European Parliament elections campaign highlight a substantial “popularity premium” benefitting low-credibility accounts when compared to a control group of high-credibility accounts
Despite these legal provisions, as of late July 2024, several Meta services—including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp— still make content produced by sanctioned Russian state-controlled media and sanctioned media personalities accessible to European audiences.
The increasing number of measures to limit greenhouse gas pollution that can be expected in the future will certainly present opportunities for future weaponization and misrepresentation. Writers, editors, and journalists should be aware of these manipulation tactics when discussing the aftermath of COVID-19 restrictions or future climate policies, knowing that some actors are trawling for any evidence to boost the manufactured ‘climate lockdown’ outrage.