On Facebook, Visual Misinfo Widespread. In the runup to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election visual misinformation was widespread across the platform, and that it was highly asymmetric across party lines, with right-leaning images five to eight times more likely to be misleading. academic.oup.com Submitted by Wagamaga t3_11hwm47 on March 4, 2023 at 10:58 AM in science 197 comments 1,535
crother t1_jayyfeh wrote on March 5, 2023 at 3:43 AM I wonder how many were memes. Permalink 8 mindfu t1_jaz5j0n wrote on March 5, 2023 at 4:49 AM I suspect most by a big number. I know the couple of conservatives I have in my feed on Facebook communicate almost entirely in memes. And also, just the dumbest memes I've ever seen. Permalink Parent 5 [deleted] t1_jb1r7gz wrote on March 5, 2023 at 7:45 PM [removed] Permalink Parent 1
mindfu t1_jaz5j0n wrote on March 5, 2023 at 4:49 AM I suspect most by a big number. I know the couple of conservatives I have in my feed on Facebook communicate almost entirely in memes. And also, just the dumbest memes I've ever seen. Permalink Parent 5
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