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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. |
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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....... |
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