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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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To: Lurkinanloomin

61 posted on 02/10/2018 8:02:11 PM PST by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: Beave Meister
"Trump supporters share more fake news than anyone else, study shows"

More likely sharing the exposing of fakenews.

62 posted on 02/10/2018 8:25:04 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: combat_boots

Yahoo News ‘nuf said.


63 posted on 02/10/2018 8:27:02 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Beave Meister

Hate to say it, but it’s true. Look at all the fake news we share here. From CNN to MSNBC to the WAPO and Slimes. It’s fake news and we share it with our friends and families.

It’s actually a good thing.


64 posted on 02/10/2018 8:31:58 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Death of the MSM - "Because it is my show and I don't want to do that." Jake Tapper)
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To: Beave Meister

This might be possible.
Trump supporters generally share fake news and Identify it as “This is Fake News”. So the statistics naturally would appear this way but it would be misleading and thus...

Fake news!

right?


65 posted on 02/10/2018 8:35:33 PM PST by Samurai_Jack (War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.)
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To: Beave Meister

Yahoo is a leftist POS


66 posted on 02/10/2018 8:40:25 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: Beave Meister

Democrats are criminals, and everybody who says so is a liar. This is what they mean by “fake news”. We have every right to think they’re criminals.


67 posted on 02/10/2018 8:47:13 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Beave Meister

Fake, ie anything they didn’t see on Huffpo.


68 posted on 02/10/2018 8:55:38 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: Beave Meister

“Sharing” isn’t the issue that needs study...”Originating” is the issue...Youhoo is one of the “originators”...


69 posted on 02/10/2018 9:03:46 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Beave Meister

From Yahoo. How droll.


70 posted on 02/10/2018 9:07:19 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Ace McCain: The tumor is a rumor but the boot was a hoot.)
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To: Beave Meister

....according to a lying view


71 posted on 02/10/2018 9:51:01 PM PST by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus)
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To: SuperLuminal

We often talk about and share their lying views. I don’t think that is what they mean. They mean from their deluded point of view, which is exceedingly and highly false. Lies built upon lies, built upon lies, and soon the deluded believe their own lies.


72 posted on 02/10/2018 9:55:47 PM PST by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

[Hate to say it, but it’s true. Look at all the fake news we share here. From CNN to MSNBC to the WAPO and Slimes. It’s fake news and we share it with our friends and families.

It’s actually a good thing.]

Well played, sir. :-)


73 posted on 02/10/2018 9:56:24 PM PST by sciencewriter86
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To: Beave Meister

Only to point out that it’s fake news.


74 posted on 02/10/2018 9:56:50 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: Beave Meister

That was unexpected!

Who would have guessed that, when “fake news” is defined to be anything pro-Trump, those who are pro-Trump would share the most fake news?


75 posted on 02/10/2018 10:59:41 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Beave Meister

Fake news!


76 posted on 02/10/2018 11:28:53 PM PST by Trillian
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To: Beave Meister

there is so much stuff I fallow on social media that liberal’s consider fake news like the list of people who have died under mysterious circumstances who are connected to the Clintons


77 posted on 02/11/2018 12:12:29 AM PST by PCPOET7
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To: JennysCool; V K Lee
Yahoo News is now Verizon Yahoo News. And guess who foretold that Yahoo was a dumb purchase?

Can you hear him now, Verizon?

78 posted on 02/11/2018 1:28:58 AM PST by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: MAGAthon; poconopundit

One man’s junk is another man’s treasure...


79 posted on 02/11/2018 1:35:02 AM PST by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: combat_boots

Could this be fake news from the progressive “Yahoo?”


80 posted on 02/11/2018 3:10:38 AM PST by jazzlite
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