NATO StratCom COE · 3 March 2023
Social Media Manipulation 2022/2023
Assessing the Ability of Social Media Companies to Combat Platform Manipulation
By Rolf Fredheim, Sebastian Bay, Anton Dek, Martha Stolze, Tetiana Haiduchyk
Social media companies continue to fail at preventing commercial manipulation. In our fourth experiment, none of the platforms improved since 2021. Collectively, their ability to prevent manipulation decreased.