New study will show misinformation on Facebook gets way more engagement than news
Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge A new peer-reviewed study from researchers at New York University and the Universite Grenoble Alpes in France will show that misinformation got six times as much engagement on Facebook as real news, The Washington Post reports.
The study looked at posts from the Facebook pages of more than 2,500 news publishers between August 2020 and January 2021. Researchers found that the pages that post more misinformation regularly got more likes, shares, and comments. This increased engagement was seen across the political spectrum, but the study found that publishers on the right have a much higher propensity to share misleading information than publishers in other political categories," according to The Washington Post.
The researchers will...