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University of Illinois at Chicago Social Media and Fake News Paper

 

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Before social media platforms deplatformed Trump in the wake of the Jan 6, 2021 insurrection, they sought to manage his disinformation campaigns through moderating and flagging his spread of hate speech. Compare how Facebook and Twitter handled Trump in 2020 via the hyperlinks below comment on the role social media played in his disinformation campaigns before his full deplatforming on Jan 6, 2021.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/trumps-statement…

https://www.theverge.com/21275532/trump-twitter-so…

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-new…

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/us/politics/tru…

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/08…

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/18/880377872/facebook-…

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/29/21275173/twit…