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Trump supporters share more fake news than anyone else, study shows
Yahoo.com ^
| 8/7/2018
| Emily Shugerman
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.
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Not one example....
To: Beave Meister
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posted on
02/10/2018 6:45:00 PM PST
by
combat_boots
(God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
To: combat_boots
Fake news on fake news. Why do they even bother?
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posted on
02/10/2018 6:46:52 PM PST
by
Spok
("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
To: Beave Meister
Trump supporters share more fake news than anyone else, study shows Because people keep posting articles from Yahoo.
To: Beave Meister
As decided by the Ministry of Propaganda.........
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posted on
02/10/2018 6:47:55 PM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: Beave Meister
Ah, more lies for the liberals who frequent Yahoo.
And it wasn’t nearly as bad when I got my email accounts there.
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posted on
02/10/2018 6:48:21 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Beave Meister
>>The final list included sites like Breitbart News and InfoWars.
My final list would include CNN and MSNBC.
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posted on
02/10/2018 6:49:14 PM PST
by
Bryanw92
(Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
To: Beave Meister
Oxford used to be a pretty good university. Now they’ve all gone to the dogs.
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posted on
02/10/2018 6:49:28 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Beave Meister
"Fake News" was coined by the leftists in order to prevent blowback onto Hillary following the discovery of Pizzagate.
Doesn't Yahoo know that?
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posted on
02/10/2018 6:49:37 PM PST
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: Spok
[Why do they even bother?]
Believe me, it will get “the true believers” all frothing at the mouth.
I haven’t been there yet but I already know....seen too much of it.
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posted on
02/10/2018 6:50:06 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Beave Meister
The researchers defined “junk news” as... anything that counters the Democrat Party Line.
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posted on
02/10/2018 6:50:06 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: gubamyster
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posted on
02/10/2018 6:51:50 PM PST
by
digger48
To: Beave Meister
Yahoo News was involved in that fake dossier scandal!
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posted on
02/10/2018 6:51:52 PM PST
by
FrdmLvr
To: Beave Meister
Yahoo,MSN, MSNBC, Facebook, Washington Post, NY Times, LA Times, Boston Globe, ABC News, CNN, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, CBS News
Shall I go on listing known and exposed fakers???
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posted on
02/10/2018 6:52:36 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
To: Beave Meister
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posted on
02/10/2018 6:53:22 PM PST
by
Doogle
(( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: Cicero
They are day old toast. Sad.
To: Beave Meister
Yahoo News. Used by more FAKE FBI investigators to justify illegal politically motivated spying.
Bought and paid for by Hillary Clinton. Wonder how many stories Yahoo has written about THAT? Zero...
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posted on
02/10/2018 6:53:44 PM PST
by
John Milner
(Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
To: Beave Meister
Yahoo employees take it up the a@@ more than any other news outlet.
Well, I dont know. They have tough competition.
Those ####s.
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posted on
02/10/2018 6:54:51 PM PST
by
dp0622
(The Left should know saying Syrian rebels in anost back in Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
To: FrdmLvr
AP and CBS News were involved in that fake National Guard memo they both tried to use to steal the 2004 election.
Their timing was off.
The election eve release of Bush’s decades old DWI arrest cost him the popular vote in 2000 (there was a measurable loss and the Al Gore’s “lead” was only 0.51% of the vote).
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posted on
02/10/2018 6:55:01 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
To: FreeperCell
I HONESTLY didn’t know there was still a yahoo news.
What is this, 1998?
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posted on
02/10/2018 6:55:53 PM PST
by
dp0622
(The Left should know saying Syrian rebels in anost back in Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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