Questão número 669218
On Facebook, Misinformation Is More Popular Now Than in 2016
People are engaging more on Facebook today with news outlets that routinely publish misinformation than they did before the 2016 election.
During the 2016 presidential election, Russian operatives used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms to spread disinformation to divide the American electorate. Since then, the social media companies have spent billions of dollars and hired tens of thousands of people to help clean up their act.
People are engaging more on Facebook today with news outlets that routinely publish misinformation than they did before the 2016 election, according to new research from the German Marshall Fund Digital, the digital arm of the public policy think tank. The organization, which has a data partnership with the start-up NewsGuard and the social media analytics firm NewsWhip, published its findings on Monday.
In total, Facebook likes, comments and shares of articles from news outlets that regularly publish falsehoods and misleading content roughly tripled from the third quarter of 2016 to the third quarter of 2020, the group found.
By Davey Alba, The New York Times (https://nyti.ms/31zUivt).
Leia o texto 'On Facebook, Misinformation Is More Popular Now Than in 2016' e, em seguida, analise as afirmativas a seguir: I. No texto, o trecho the social media companies have spent billions of dollars traz a palavra spent, que significa espalhar. II. De acordo com as informações do texto, pode-se concluir que o German Marshall Fund Digital tem uma parceria com a start-up NewsGuard e com a social media analytics firm NewsWhip. Marque a alternativa CORRETA:
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A) As duas afirmativas são verdadeiras.
B) A afirmativa I é verdadeira, e a II é falsa.
C) A afirmativa II é verdadeira, e a I é falsa.
D) As duas afirmativas são falsas.
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