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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More likely sharing the exposing of fakenews.
Yahoo News ‘nuf said.
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.
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?
Yahoo is a leftist POS
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.
Fake, ie anything they didn’t see on Huffpo.
“Sharing” isn’t the issue that needs study...”Originating” is the issue...Youhoo is one of the “originators”...
From Yahoo. How droll.
....according to a lying view
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.
[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. :-)
Only to point out that it’s fake news.
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?
Fake news!
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
Can you hear him now, Verizon?
One man’s junk is another man’s treasure...
Could this be fake news from the progressive “Yahoo?”
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