{"id":1025093,"date":"2026-07-31T07:46:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025093"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:23:15","slug":"meta-backed-research-finds-exposure-to-untrustworthy-social-media-is-rare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/31\/meta-backed-research-finds-exposure-to-untrustworthy-social-media-is-rare\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta-backed research finds exposure to &#8216;untrustworthy&#8217; social media is rare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much of what you see on social media comes from sources that repeatedly post falsehoods? And if that content quietly vanished from your feed, would you believe anything different months later? <\/p>\n<p>A new study published today in Science Advances offers the most rigorous answers yet. It comes from a collaboration between Meta and academic researchers who studied the 2020 United States election. It was run from inside the machine &#8211; on the live feeds of Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much of what you see on social media comes from sources that repeatedly post falsehoods? And if that content quietly vanished from your feed, would you believe anything different months later? A new study published today in Science Advances offers the most rigorous answers yet. It comes from a collaboration between Meta and academic researchers who studied the 2020 United States election. It was run from inside the machine &#8211; on the live feeds of Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025120,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025093\/revisions\/1025120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}