Social media platforms such asFacebook, InstagramandTwitterare rife withmisinformationthat can easily go viral.
The study’s findings werepublished in the journal Naturelast week.
By combining multiple measures, there can be a significant improvement in the results, the study found.
Musk says he wants to make the platform more “free speech” oriented.
Also effective is removing repeat offenders, people who regularly share misinformation.
They can have their own standards and require users to follow them.
Twitter’s policy pagehas two sets of rules for misinformation, with varying penalties.
The study also references nudges.
These are the warnings and tags used on tweets advising people that a post has false info.
Twitter has made use of these extensively throughout theCOVID-19 pandemic regarding misinformation about the virus, treatments and vaccines.
They also pointed to the company’s"How we address misinformation on Twitter" page.
West said the researchers looked at Twitter first because it was the easiest platform to gather data on.
He said the next big step is to use the model on other, bigger platforms, like Facebook.
