Study finds Republicans flagged for posting misleading tweets twice as often as Democrats on Community Notes

New research from the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University, in partnership with researchers at Panthéon-Sorbonne and the MIT Sloan School of Management, reveals partisan differences in which posts get flagged as misleading by the social media platform X's Community Notes program. The study's findings show that misinformation is shared disproportionately across political divides, but this imbalance isn't a result of biases among the users rating the Community Notes on X.

Jun 17, 2025 - 18:48
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New research from the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University, in partnership with researchers at Panthéon-Sorbonne and the MIT Sloan School of Management, reveals partisan differences in which posts get flagged as misleading by the social media platform X's Community Notes program. The study's findings show that misinformation is shared disproportionately across political divides, but this imbalance isn't a result of biases among the users rating the Community Notes on X.