As usual, The Guardian to our rescue. If this keeps up, I will need to become a subscriber to help keep up their good work.
Fake news sharing in US is a rightwing thing, says study
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University of Oxford project finds Trump supporters consume largest volume of ‘junk news’ on Facebook and Twitter
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I would rather moon for that bunch than honk. (sorry the image does not post
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Low-quality, extremist, sensationalist and conspiratorial news published in the US was overwhelmingly consumed and shared by rightwing social network users, according to a new study from the University of Oxford.
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“On Twitter, a network of Trump supporters consumes the largest volume of junk news, and junk news is the largest proportion of news links they share,” the researchers concluded. On Facebook, the skew was even greater. There, “extreme hard right pages – distinct from Republican pages – share more junk news than all the other audiences put together.”
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No wonder Facebook is claiming that they did not play a part in gaming the 2016 elections and help elect a Fake POTUS.
I have always claimed that Facebook is dangerous to our society.