Social Media Misinformation and the Prevention of Political Instability and Mass Atrocities
Social media’s enormous impact is unmistakable. Facebook sees approximately 300 million new photos uploaded daily, while six thousand Tweets are sent every second. The most popular YouTube channels receive over 14 billion views weekly, while the messaging app Telegram boasts over 500 million users. Such platforms have also been used to promote instability, provide platforms for the spread of political conflict, and call for violence. Researchers believe that organized social media misinformation campaigns have operated in at least 81 countries, a trend that continues to grow yearly, with a sizable number of state-backed and private corporation manipulation efforts.
This policy paper draws on various sources to survey contemporary social media misinformation patterns and provide recommendations for multiple stakeholders. We argue that the instability and atrocity prevention community must incorporate emerging issues linked to social media misinformation, and we provide recommendations for doing so. A simple but disturbing truth confronts the prevention community: misinformation can rapidly shapeshift across topics, but only a few narratives need to take hold for trust in facts and evidentiary standards to erode.
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