An investigation of social media labeling decisions preceding the 2020 U.S. election.

ABSTRACT: Since it is difficult to determine whether social media content moderators have assessed particular content, it is hard to evaluate the consistency of their decisions within platforms. We study a dataset of 1,035 posts on Facebook and Twitter to investigate this question. The posts in our sample made 78 misleading claims related to the U.S. 2020 presidential election. These posts were identified by the Election Integrity Partnership, a coalition of civil society groups, and sent to the relevant platforms, where employees confirmed receipt. The platforms labeled some (but not all) of these posts as misleading. For 69% of the misleading claims, Facebook consistently labeled each post that included one of those claims-either always or never adding a label. It inconsistently labeled the remain

SUBMITTER: Bradshaw S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10650990 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature