Nov. 4, 2022, 10:25 AM
Candidates who have pushed the falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen routinely have seen their posts collecting more engagement overall compared to the performance of each candidate’s average post, Bloomberg News found.
Bloomberg News’s review covered more than 1 million Facebook and Twitter posts of every Republican running for Senate, Congress, governor, attorney general or secretary of state this year. The social media companies, which have alerted users about election falsehoods in the past, did not have any context added to the misleading posts that surfaced at the time of Bloomberg’s review.
After the 2020 vote, while former President …
