Russian Disinformation Campaign on Twitter Had No Measurable Impact on 2016 Election: Study

Russian Disinformation Campaign on Twitter Had No Measurable Impact on 2016 Election: Study
The logo of social media giant Twitter on Oct. 12, 2021. Kirill Kuryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images
Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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Russian efforts to spread disinformation on Twitter during the 2016 presidential election didn’t produce any measurable impact on the results of the election, a new study suggests.

For the study, published on Monday in Nature Communications, a team of researchers from Ireland, Denmark, Germany, and the United States examined Twitter users’ behavior and attitudes during the eight months leading up to Election Day on Nov. 8, 2016.