How is misinformation about the war in Ukraine spreading?
Oxford Sparks Big Questions
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Social Media Platform Algorithms
Social media platforms tweek those algoritms they use in order to increase virality of messages. Platforms are interested in larger engagement, more intensive engagement with information than is being spread on social media. And this wat been abused by misinformation actors who know how algaritms function. Some platforms restrict individual users on essential, almost weakly basis.
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