Facebook was the biggest distributor of fake news, study finds
 

On Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 12:32:27 PM UTC-5, Joe wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 12:17:36 -0500
"BurfordTJustice" wrote:

Facebook was the biggest distributor of fake news, study finds

Ho, ho, ho...

And:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-...ged-articles-e

Apparently F-book's 'fake news' flag was being widely taken as a
confirmation of accuracy.... I wonder why?

A recent study has found that Facebook was the biggest gateway for
fake news in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election.

The social media site was by far the top disseminator of fake news
articles, putting it ahead of email, Google and Twitter, according to
three political scientists. Their findings are based on actual web
traffic data pulled from 2,525 Americans, all of whom consented to
the study.



But even as the study estimates that millions of Americans are
encountering fake news, most of the time people are still viewing the
real news.

Ironically, people who read the most fake news, also read a great
deal of real news, the study found.

The professors behind the research include Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth
College, Andrew Guess of Princeton University and Jason Reifler of
the University of Exeter. A limitation of the study was it looked
only at website visits, and didn't account for fake news consumption
over mobile devices, or how users interacted with the social media
platforms directly.


I am curious to know how these learned men are defining 'real news'. I
do hope they don't mean news published in mainstream newspapers and
entertainers. Several mainstream US 'news' sources have had to extract
feet from mouth recently.

--
Joe

The difference of course is that on the rare occasions the mainstream media
is wrong on the facts, they quickly correct it. Team Trump and their
really fake news and lies, never does. Nor do they apologize.

Facebook was the biggest distributor of fake news, study finds
 

On Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 12:59:57 PM UTC-5, BurfordTJustice wrote:
Why do you not want to pay your fair share?


CNN makes **** up every day and never corrects it.

They feed people like you...LOL


Then it should be easy for you to show us five examples from the last
week where CNN was wrong on the facts.

Waiting......

I can show you plenty of examples of Trump lying and spreading BS.
Like a couple days ago, he tried to take credit for the fact that
there were no fatalities in the US or worldwide on major airline
aircraft due to his being "tough" on the airlines. Fact is, he
has nothing to do with international airlines, he didn't do anything
to US airlines, and there has not been a fatality in the US in like
6 years.

He also claimed he has signed into law more legislation than any
other president, another lie. There are two from the last week.

Show us the CNN ones.......