There’s good evidence that some people find predictive models like FiveThirtyEight’s confusing, and an argument that they might keep people from voting. But 2016’s scars shouldn’t mean that voters have to be kept in the dark.
“To the extent that the mass media model we identify here is the primary driver of information disorder, it will not be cured by more fact checking on Facebook.”
Plus: How Trump’s 2016 digital campaign sought to suppress the Black vote, and people on both sides of the political spectrum are vulnerable to misinformation about mail dumping.
“Newsrooms need to prepare for a political environment in which mainstream political figures, most notably the President of the United States, are going to promote false and unsupported claims about the election. They need to prepare for that now.”
Curd Knüpfer and Robert Mathew EntmanSeptember 29, 2020
Owen, Laura Hazard. "Facebook has been terrible about removing vaccine misinformation. Will it do better with election misinformation?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 4 Sep. 2020. Web. 24 Jul. 2024.
APA
Owen, L. (2020, Sep. 4). Facebook has been terrible about removing vaccine misinformation. Will it do better with election misinformation?. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved July 24, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/09/facebook-has-been-terrible-about-removing-vaccine-misinformation-will-it-do-better-with-election-misinformation/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "Facebook has been terrible about removing vaccine misinformation. Will it do better with election misinformation?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified September 4, 2020. Accessed July 24, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/09/facebook-has-been-terrible-about-removing-vaccine-misinformation-will-it-do-better-with-election-misinformation/.
Wikipedia
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| title = Facebook has been terrible about removing vaccine misinformation. Will it do better with election misinformation?
| last = Owen
| first = Laura Hazard
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| date = 4 September 2020
| accessdate = 24 July 2024
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