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“I Won the Election!”: An Empirical Analysis of Soft Moderation Interventions on Twitter Discussion

  • Republicans were responsible for sharing the majority (72%) of tweets with warning labels on the topic of the 2020 US Presidential Election
  • Higher engagement observed for tweets with warning labels, indicating that political bias contributed to people’s perceptions of the warning labels or that warning labels were not added until substantial discussion of the tweet was found
  • Many users take advantage of soft moderation to debunk misinformation and provide resources to accurate and reliable information

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Updated 2021-05-18

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