After Twitter banned Trump, election misinformation online plunged dramatically

Last Wednesday, Trump returned to Twitter in a video posted via the official @POTUS account, complaining that his deplatforming by Twitter and others was an ‘unprecedented assault on free speech’, but he’ll no longer have access to that account as of Jan 20 with Biden’s inauguration. — Reuters

LOS ANGELES: US President Trump’s permanent ban from Twitter helped eliminate huge clouds of misinformation that were polluting social-media networks, according to new research.

From Jan 9-15, misinformation about election fraud on social networks plummeted around 73%, from 2.5 million to 688,000 posts, according to data from social-analytics firm Zignal Labs, as cited by a Washington Post report.