cover image: How do platforms handle electoral misinformation in paid-for advertising? An experimental evaluation using the Voice referendum

How do platforms handle electoral misinformation in paid-for advertising? An experimental evaluation using the Voice referendum

24 Sep 2023

There are significant gaps in Australia’s regulatory framework when it comes to electoral misinformation and disinformation served through paid-for advertising. This creates notable vulnerabilities in Australia’s online information architecture, such as the growing problem of threats to electoral integrity. This small research piece demonstrates issues with platform responses to electoral misinformation served through paid-for advertising and weaknesses in platform transparency reports to the Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation (the Code). We put forward a range of paid-for ads containing explicit electoral misinformation for approval to run on Facebook, TikTok and X(Twitter).
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