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Is big tech harming society? To find out, we need research – but it’s being manipulated by big tech itself

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Timothy Graham receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for his Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, 'Combatting Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour on Social Media'. He also receives ARC funding for the Discovery Project, 'Understanding and combatting "Dark Political Communication"' (2024–2027). Queensland University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. View all partners For almost a decade, researchers have been gathering evidence that the social media platform Facebook disproportionately amplifies low-quality content and misinformation. So it was something of a surprise when in 2023 the journal Science published a study that found Facebook’s algorithms were not major drivers of misinformation during the 2020 United States election. This study was funded by Facebook’s parent company, Meta. Several Meta employees were also part of the authorship team. It attracted extensive media coverage. It was also celebrated by Meta’s president of

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