Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Fake and Extremely Biased Twitter Content Decreased Between 2016-2020, But Top Influencers Were More Polarized

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: Fake and Extremely Biased Twitter Content Decreased Between 2016-2020, But Top Influencers Were More Polarized. “On one hand, the amount of fake and extremely biased content decreased by 2020 compared to 2016, perhaps because of Twitter’s efforts to limit disinformation from going viral. The volume of tweets linking to disinformation websites dropped by half and the number of users sharing fake news dropped even more. On the other hand, users in 2020 were less likely to share information or interact with users who do not share their political beliefs than they were in 2016.”