Articles By
Zeve Sanderson
Twitter flagged Donald Trump’s tweets with election misinformation: They continued to spread both on and off the platform
Zeve Sanderson, Megan A. Brown, Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler and Joshua A. Tucker
We analyze the spread of Donald Trump’s tweets that were flagged by Twitter using two intervention strategies—attaching a warning label and blocking engagement with the tweet entirely. We find that while blocking engagement on certain tweets limited their diffusion, messages we examined with warning labels spread further on Twitter than those without labels.