Most Twitter Accounts Linked To 2016 Disinformation Are Still Active, Report Finds
Source: NPR
October 4, 20185:01 AM ET
TIM MAK
Most of the Twitter accounts that spread disinformation during the 2016 presidential campaign remain active now, according to an ambitious new study released on Thursday.
Knight Foundation researchers examined millions of tweets and concluded that more than 80 percent of the accounts associated with the 2016 disinformation campaign are still posting — even after Twitter announced back in July that it had instituted a purge of fake accounts.
"The persistence of so many easily identified abusive accounts is difficult to square with any effective crackdown," write authors Matthew Hindman of George Washington University and Vlad Barash of the social media analysis company Graphika.
Disinformation networks continue pumping out false posts at an incredible rate: in a typical day they publish more than a million tweets, the authors found.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/04/653454568/most-twitter-accounts-linked-to-2016-disinformation-are-still-active-report-find?t=1538649137671
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