Tech platforms' responses to the Hong Kong protests could represent a shifting attitude towards political disinformation:
accounts and also is banning state-backed media from promoting tweets after those publications advertised for the Chinese government, running campaigns that said the protestors were"sponsored by Western interests and were becoming violent."
These latest actions could represent a shifting attitude towards political disinformation, which may precede stronger clampdowns ahead of the coming US elections. Platforms' commitment to removing disinformation put out by state actors could indicate a different approach to self-regulating in the near future.
Notably, the three platforms are blocked in China, which probably accounts for the relatively low numbers of fake accounts compared with past removals of government-coordinated activity. For instance, Facebook270 accounts and pages in 2018 controlled by Russia's Internet Research Agency, or the"troll factory," and that was years after the election.
Politically motivated disinformation is becoming a growing norm across platforms, but in the past, the social giants haven't taken such drastic, immediate action to remove inaccurate posts. It seems that they are, perhaps, learning from past mistakes. With the US elections coming, firmer pushes to shut down disinformation could help boost their public perceptions after the fallout from the 2016 election. Facebook in particular has been working toward boosting its capacities to reign in election interference: The company tested"
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