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Partisan conflict over content moderation is more than disagreement about facts
Social media companies have come under increasing pressure to remove misinformation from their platforms, but partisan disagreements over what should be removed have stymied efforts to deal with misinformation in the United States. Current explanations for these disagreements center on the “fact gap...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10624338/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37922349 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg6799 |
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description | Social media companies have come under increasing pressure to remove misinformation from their platforms, but partisan disagreements over what should be removed have stymied efforts to deal with misinformation in the United States. Current explanations for these disagreements center on the “fact gap”—differences in perceptions about what is misinformation. We argue that partisan differences could also be due to “party promotion”—a desire to leave misinformation online that promotes one’s own party—or a “preference gap”—differences in internalized preferences about whether misinformation should be removed. Through an experiment where respondents are shown false headlines aligned with their own or the opposing party, we find some evidence of party promotion among Democrats and strong evidence of a preference gap between Democrats and Republicans. Even when Republicans agree that content is false, they are half as likely as Democrats to say that the content should be removed and more than twice as likely to consider removal as censorship. |
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spelling | pubmed-106243382023-11-04 Partisan conflict over content moderation is more than disagreement about facts Appel, Ruth E. Pan, Jennifer Roberts, Margaret E. Sci Adv Social and Interdisciplinary Sciences Social media companies have come under increasing pressure to remove misinformation from their platforms, but partisan disagreements over what should be removed have stymied efforts to deal with misinformation in the United States. Current explanations for these disagreements center on the “fact gap”—differences in perceptions about what is misinformation. We argue that partisan differences could also be due to “party promotion”—a desire to leave misinformation online that promotes one’s own party—or a “preference gap”—differences in internalized preferences about whether misinformation should be removed. Through an experiment where respondents are shown false headlines aligned with their own or the opposing party, we find some evidence of party promotion among Democrats and strong evidence of a preference gap between Democrats and Republicans. Even when Republicans agree that content is false, they are half as likely as Democrats to say that the content should be removed and more than twice as likely to consider removal as censorship. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2023-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10624338/ /pubmed/37922349 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg6799 Text en Copyright © 2023 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Social and Interdisciplinary Sciences Appel, Ruth E. Pan, Jennifer Roberts, Margaret E. Partisan conflict over content moderation is more than disagreement about facts |
title | Partisan conflict over content moderation is more than disagreement about facts |
title_full | Partisan conflict over content moderation is more than disagreement about facts |
title_fullStr | Partisan conflict over content moderation is more than disagreement about facts |
title_full_unstemmed | Partisan conflict over content moderation is more than disagreement about facts |
title_short | Partisan conflict over content moderation is more than disagreement about facts |
title_sort | partisan conflict over content moderation is more than disagreement about facts |
topic | Social and Interdisciplinary Sciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10624338/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37922349 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adg6799 |
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