Apr 20, 2022 16:00:00

'It's a mistake that Twitter is strict with conservatives, it's just that conservatives tend to share misinformation.'

Twitter has

permanently frozen the account of former President Donald Trump, and many conservative users who follow Mr. Trump have also been frozen, so some people have accused Twitter of having anti-conservative prejudice. I am. In response to such an indication, a new survey result was shown that 'Twitter has no prejudice, only user behavior is biased.'

PsyArXiv Preprints | Is Twitter biased against conservatives? The challenge of inferring political bias in a hyper-partisan media ecosystem
https://psyarxiv.com/ay9q5

Fascinating New Study Suggests (Again) That Twitter Moderation Is Biased Against Misinformation, Not Conservatives | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/18/fascinating-new-study-suggests-again-that-twitter-moderation-is-biased-against-misinformation-not-conservatives/

Qi Yang and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have suspended their Twitter accounts for 9,000 Twitter users, given that social media companies are often accused of 'anti-conservative prejudice.' We investigated whether the measures were intervened by political prejudice.

The target audience was all politically-speaking users, half of whom were Democrats and half of whom were Republicans. The target period is six months from October 2020, during which the US presidential election was held in which Mr. Trump and President Joe Biden decided the sex.

During the survey period, 7.7% of Democratic supporters who supported Mr. Biden had their accounts suspended, compared to 35.6% of Republican supporters led by Mr. Trump. What is important in this regard is that Republican supporters 'shared more news from false information sites' than Democratic supporters, Yang et al.

Twitter has set out a 'policy on synthetic or manipulated media ' that is 'separated from synthetic or manipulated media or context that can deceive or confuse users and cause damage. Sharing stale media ('misleading media') is prohibited. ' Twitter is only suspending accounts according to the above policy, and the claim that Twitter is prejudiced is questioned.

Yang et al. 'The observation that Republican supporters are receiving more account suspension than Democratic supporters does not support the claim that Twitter has shown political prejudice against the measure. Our results. It is clear that there is an asymmetry in the frequency of sharing false information between the two, and it is inappropriate to simply infer political prejudice from the account suspension rate. '

There are many opinions that the moderation system has political prejudice in the culture of social media, but there are some who have directly denied its existence. Former CEO of overseas bulletin board Reddit continues to insist that 'the left and right wing both have the shoulder of the other party' about the actual situation of Reddit, but it is specific that the SNS management side regulates It's not a topic, but a user's behavior on a specific topic. From the bottom of my heart, the management thinksthat 'political talk doesn't matter.'