A new study found that, on TikTok and Elon Musk’s Twitter, nearly 3/4 of all partisan content being pushed algorithmically to German users favored the party best known for its ties to neo-Nazis.
An analysis of more than 185,000 tweets by New York Times staffers showed they got less opinionated — and less frequent overall — when a management memo asked the newsroom to scale back the takes.
“At the time of this writing, it is difficult to avoid the realization that one side of politics — mainly in the U.S. but also elsewhere — appears more threatened by research into misinformation than by the risks to democracy arising from misinformation itself.”
Benton, Joshua. "How big a threat does misinformation pose to democracy?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 6 Nov. 2023. Web. 25 Mar. 2025.
APA
Benton, J. (2023, Nov. 6). How big a threat does misinformation pose to democracy?. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 25, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/11/how-big-a-threat-does-misinformation-pose-to-democracy/
Chicago
Benton, Joshua. "How big a threat does misinformation pose to democracy?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified November 6, 2023. Accessed March 25, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/11/how-big-a-threat-does-misinformation-pose-to-democracy/.
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