Donald Trump's Facebook engagement surges as he spreads election misinformation

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The president's posts continue to be flagged for spreading false or disputed information, but analytics data suggests that he is far from suppressed.

-led website gained an average of 403,200 interactions. Many of the posts now include fact-checking labels or links to legitimate information.compared to any other point in the past three years is absolutely ridiculous," Martinez tweeted, noting in 2017 the engagement was often under 100,000 per post.With some media attention now turning to the incoming administration, Trump has used his social media presence to spread false claims about the election.

"People are not going to stand for having this Election stolen from them by a privately owned Radical Left company, Dominion, and many other reasons!," Trump's post read, reiterating the baseless assertion that voting machines were manipulated. On Trump's Facebook feed the following week , the most engaged post was an all-caps assertion that he had won the election, gaining over 1.3 million responses.

Martinez said on Twitter this week that three of the top five most popular page posts on the entirety of the Facebook platform last weekend had been from Trump's account, and were not initially flagged."Two of those posts were about baseless voter allegations, neither were labeled as misinformation by Facebook," Martinez tweeted.

 

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Did you all think he would fade into obscurity? Silly children.

Which is nothing compared to what the MSM did in the months prior to the election.

Of course it does, Zuckerberg profits off propaganda.

Of course it did...

All lack intelligence & dismiss reality

You just know he is MILKING every nano-second!

Who cares what realDonaldTrump does anymore? He's a has been, also ran and D-lister. He's a one term president who lost it all because he couldn't lead his way out of a wet paper bag! Had he dealt with Covid19 properly, he may just may have had a chance, but he blew it. A LOSER!

Donald J. Trump my hero

Pathetic man, what a loser for the ages

Unfollowed bye 👋🏻

Georgia Republicans should write in 'Donald Trump' for the Georgia Senate runoff races on Jan. 5. USA! USA! USA! 🇺🇸

Salt & strippers 😱 The end.. 👍

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