It's "important to be clear about how rare this behavior is on social platforms," researchers say.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown|Jan. 11, 2019 12:26 pm
Most social media users still know bullshit when they see it, a new study suggests. In a study of social media behavior during the 2016 election, more than 90 percent of their sample "shared no stories from fake news domains," a trio of researchers reports in Science Advances.
The conservative bit comes with a caveat: In 2016, fake news domains "were largely pro-Trump in orientation." So it's not necessarily that conservatives are more susceptible than moderates or liberals to propaganda; it could just be that there was more propaganda aimed at them.
Or a third possibility, conservative websites were unfairly targeted by liberally biased websites that claim to be unbiased fact checkers. Everybody has skin in this game. You just don’t know.
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It's "important to be clear about how rare this behavior is on social platforms," researchers say.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown|Jan. 11, 2019 12:26 pm
Most social media users still know bullshit when they see it, a new study suggests. In a study of social media behavior during the 2016 election, more than 90 percent of their sample "shared no stories from fake news domains," a trio of researchers reports in Science Advances.
The conservative bit comes with a caveat: In 2016, fake news domains "were largely pro-Trump in orientation." So it's not necessarily that conservatives are more susceptible than moderates or liberals to propaganda; it could just be that there was more propaganda aimed at them.
FROM: https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/11/the-fake-news-epidemic-was-fake-news
Or a third possibility, conservative websites were unfairly targeted by liberally biased websites that claim to be unbiased fact checkers. Everybody has skin in this game. You just don’t know.
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