43% of tech professionals say the misinformation moderation on social networks plays no favorites
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Misinformation Moderation On Social Networks
As expected, the outcome of the 2020 election is taking many days to determine. A surge of misinformation on social networks has challenged social networks' content policies and drawn fresh attention to their enforcement capabilities.
On Blind, an anonymous professional network with 3.8M verified users, an Intuit user ran a poll asking, "Are social media companies overreaching in this election?"
Key Learnings from 1,000 in the past 5 hours:
- 43% of tech professionals believe that the current social networks censorship plays no favorites
- 52% of Facebook professionals believe that the current censorship plays no favorites
- 100% of Splunk professionals believe that the current censorship plays no favorites
- 52% of Google professionals believe that the current censorship plays no favorites
- 50% of Linkedin professionals believe that the current censorship plays no favorites
- 34% of tech professionals believe that the current censorship favors left but should be more discreet
- 59% of Apple professionals believe that the current censorship favors left but should be more discreet
See the raw data here.
Tech Professionals' Opinion
While the answer choices to the poll are not perfect, the comments themselves add a lot of color to tech's opinion regarding the surge of misinformation on social networks.
A Facebook user responded to the poll asking, "What censorship exactly? You mean Twitter flagging when Trump says something that is objectively false?"
A Google user responded to the poll saying, "If the president lies, I don't think Twitter is wrong to censor it. And it's not like they're even stopping people from reading it if they want to read it; they're just putting a warning message first."
An Amazon user responded to the poll saying, "If the president lies, I don't think Twitter is wrong to censor it. And it's not like they're even stopping people from reading it if they want to read it; they're just putting a warning message first."
It's too early to answer whether social media has fully risen to the 2020 election challenge — given the contentious nature of the Trumps' pronouncements this week, their most challenging work is very likely still ahead of them.
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