Bb5a31f81ClaimMeta platforms have a collective daily active user base of 3.64 billion users across Meta applicationsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimDigital advertising business models focused on capturing user attention generate significant portions of revenue for Meta and GoogleAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimInformation warfare operations over the fifteen years leading up to 2026 primarily targeted social media platformsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimConservative activist Laura Loomer published a social media post asking JD Vance to call out Somalis flooding Ohio polls prior to JD Vance's New York remarks claiming Somalis were flooding pollsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimAuthor Ryan Holiday publicly posted a photograph making a middle-finger gesture at a campaign sign for Texas Attorney General Ken PaxtonAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s social media accounts on YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter were suspended following federal administration requestsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimOn online dating applications, men maintain an acceptance rate of approximately 50 percent, whereas women accept approximately 5 percent of male profilesAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimHaley Stevens publicly announced her endorsement of Republican Mike Rogers on social mediaAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimScottish comedian Janey Godley produces satirical political voiceover videos circulated widely across social mediaAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimDuring the 2019 UK general election campaign, the Conservative Party temporarily rebranded its official Twitter account to FactCheckUKAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimFollowing the Conservative Party's 2019 FactCheckUK rebrand, British satirist Charlie Brooker and other Twitter users temporarily changed their profile names to FactCheckUKAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimReducing the prevalence of politically like-minded content in user feeds during the 2020 US presidential election had no measurable effect on affective polarization, ideological extremity, candidate evaluations, or belief in false claimsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Research Study papers were published across the scientific journals Science and NatureAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimExperimental algorithmic modifications across a three-month period during the 2020 US election produced no detectable changes in participants' political attitudesAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Research Study combined platform-wide aggregate observational studies of adult US users with experimental studies on consenting participantsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimParticipants in the 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Research Study experiments provided consent after being informed that aspects of their platform experience would be alteredAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe average Facebook user receives less than 15% of their content on Facebook from cross-cutting ideological sourcesAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimContent flagged as misinformation by Facebook fact-checkers was disproportionately consumed by right-leaning users on the platformAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimTalia Stroud of the University of Texas at Austin and Joshua Tucker of New York University served as academic co-leaders of the 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Research StudyAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimIn the 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Research Study, eliminating reshared content reduced user exposure to untrustworthy sources but simultaneously decreased user exposure to mainstream political news headlinesAgreeDisagree