The new research by the San Francisco-based analytics firm reported that conversations about election fraud dropped from 2.5 million mentions to 688,000 mentions across several social media sites in the week after Trump was banned from Twitter. Election disinformation had been a major subject of online misinformation for months, beginning even before the Nov. 3 election, pushed heavily by Trump and his allies. "Together, those actions will likely significantly reduce the amount of online misinformation in the near term," said Kate Starbird, disinformation researcher at the University of Washington. Mentions of the hashtag #FightforTrump, which was widely deployed across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social media services in the week before the rally, dropped 95%. The report also found "incendiary and implicitly violent narratives continue to spread at the peripheries of the social media platforms we are monitoring."
