Posted on 02/10/2018 6:43:51 PM PST by Beave Meister
Trump supporters share more fake news on social media than any other political group, according to a new study from Oxford University.
Researchers studied more than 13,000 Twitter users and 47,000 Facebook pages in the days leading up to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address to determine which social media users spread the most “junk” news.
They discovered that Trump supporters on Twitter shared more unreliable news than all other groups combined. On Facebook, extreme conservatives share more junk news than all other audiences put together.
The researchers defined “junk news” as “misleading, deceptive or incorrect information purporting to be real news about politics, economics or culture”. A team of 12 researchers coded news stories to determine which sites were likely to broadcast this kind of news. The final list included sites like Breitbart News and InfoWars.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
CNN says “Trump is a Russian puppet” — OK, we’ll put that in the pile of “obviously true news stories”.
Conservative says “Hillary has health problems” — OK, we’ll put that in the pile of “laughably untrue stories no sensible person believes.”
And on, and on, and on.
This study brought to you by: Fake News!
Your list needs to include ABC, CBS, & NBC.
Trump supporters beat their cats and dogs, Pravda MSM says...
...according to leftards.
Where was the research done, a Macedonian content farm?
Yahoo is as antiquated now as Newsweek.
They will suffer the same fate.
Investors who got out when the Yahooooooo TV commercials were rolling are thanking God as we type.
Yeah, for them. They are trapped. But fun to watch them wiggle.
You mean NewsWEAK don’t you?
In a constant effort to feel superior they come out with garbage like this to hold themselves out as being superior in intellect, intelligence and for their erudite standing compared to the idiot red-necks that they paint all on the right to be. In other words it reveals, fully, their insecurity and shallowness.
Do they give course credit for that?
The deal is that Yahoo is ultimately pointing to an organization that ‘rates’ the news. Somebody declares a story ‘junk’ and whether it’s true or not whoever reads it consumes and spreads ‘Junk News’.
We share THE fake news to expose
The “study”:
“12 researchers coded news stories”
NYT, Time, Newsweek, and Compost readers; CNN and MSNBC watchers; Democrats; commies; snowflakes; socialists; I’m With Her types.
This is so preposterous.
LOL
Can you say “pitifully outdated and inconsequential” any louder?
The bias is strong with this one.
They don’t include vast amounts of truly fake news from the MSM outlets, so such a “study” is guaranteed to be terribly skewed.
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