Woozle HypertwinVia WaPo --
2024-10-02 Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions
Emphasis mine:
Although users estimated to be pro-Trump/conservative were indeed substantially more likely to be suspended than those estimated to be pro-Biden/liberal, users who were pro-Trump/conservative also shared far more links to various sets of low-quality news sites—even when news quality was determined by politically balanced groups of laypeople, or groups of only Republican laypeople—and had higher estimated likelihoods of being bots.
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I think this is the WaPo article, but it's behind a paywall; the email, fortunately, included links to earlier reports (along with enough clues to let me find the new paper):
Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political asymmetries in enforcement should be expected.
Kristoffer Stefan