Social media platforms need users to police posts with false information to restrain big tech companies from exerting authoritative control over content, according to a panel hosted by the International Fact-Checking Network on Monday.
Former President Donald Trump and some 70,000 other profiles were suspended from Twitter following the Capitol riot last month, moderator Cristina Tardáguila, the associate director of the IFCN at the Poynter Institute, said. One study found that misinformation regarding the 2020 presidential election dropped 73% after the users were deplatformed, or removed from social media websites, according to Tardáguila.
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