Disinformation around the topic of electoral fraud fell 73 percent after President Trump
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The research firm reported that speech on electoral fraud dropped from 2.5 million mentions on social media platforms to close to 688,000, following the Twitter President’s permanent suspension, according to The Washington Post.
Twitter banned Trump’s account for the first time shortly after a violent crowd of his supporters attacked the Capitol building on January 6. The platform said it feared that Trump’s future posts might incite more violence after the Capitol riots left five dead, including a Capitol police officer.
Twitter announced after Trump’s ban that it also banned more than 70,000 accounts linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Facebook indefinitely suspended Trump’s account until at least the president-elect Joe Biden
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The research studied online disinformation from January 1 to January 8, the week before Trump’s suspension, and disinformation the week after Trump’s suspension from January 9 to 15, according to the Post.
While Trump was on social media, he repeatedly stated that the 2020 election was “rigged” and “stolen” due to widespread electoral fraud. However, state and federal election officials, as well as former Attorney General Bill Barr, said there was no substantial evidence of widespread electoral fraud.
Popular hashtags that were used to spread incorrect information about electoral fraud also dropped significantly in the same period, according to the survey including #FightForTrump, which fell 95.5%, and #HoldTheLine, which fell 94.3%.
Although electoral fraud conspiracy theories have fallen online, mentions of “Qanon” and “Q” have increased by 15%. Many who attacked the Capitol claimed to be followers of Qanon’s conspiracy theories.
However, other popular Qanon phrases, like “We Are the New Snow” and “QanonJapanFlynn” fell 98.6 percent and 95.5 percent, respectively.
After Trump was banned, he said he would either go to a new social media platform or make his own. Jared Kushner
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