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Labelling, shadow bans and community resistance: did meta's strategy to suppress rather than remove COVID misinformation and conspiracy theory on Facebook slow the spread?

Overview of attention for article published in Media International Australia, March 2024
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#13 of 683)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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news
9 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
11 X users

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mendeley
4 Mendeley
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Title
Labelling, shadow bans and community resistance: did meta's strategy to suppress rather than remove COVID misinformation and conspiracy theory on Facebook slow the spread?
Published in
Media International Australia, March 2024
DOI 10.1177/1329878x241236984
Authors

Amelia Johns, Francesco Bailo, Emily Booth, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 4 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 3 75%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Unspecified 3 75%
Computer Science 1 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 85. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 March 2024.
All research outputs
#507,247
of 25,554,853 outputs
Outputs from Media International Australia
#13
of 683 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,080
of 198,520 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Media International Australia
#1
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,554,853 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 683 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 198,520 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 7 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them