The New York University Center for Social Media and Politics conducted a study on the limits of what Russian disinformation and misinformation were able to achieve on Twitter during the 2016 election.
What they found should put to rest any claims by Democrats that Russian influence on social media swung that election to Donald Trump.
“My personal sense coming out of this is that this got way overhyped,” Josh Tucker, one of the report’s authors, who is also the co-director of the New York University center, told the New York Times.
“Now we’re looking back at data and we can see how concentrated this was in one small portion of the population, and how the fact that people who were being exposed to these were really, really likely to vote for Trump,” Tucker said. “And then we have this data to show we can’t find any relationship between being exposed to these tweets and people’s change in attitudes.”
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