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BBC research on ‘fake news’ is shoddy, unethical, and dishonest
- msravi 8y agoAmazing. They used a sample size of 10 per age group * 4 age groups in a country of 1.3 bln people to conclude that "...the dense interconnections on the right on Twitter are enabling the effective circulation of fake news in a way the loose interconnections on the left of the political spectrum are not"
- msravi 8y agoLink to the bbc summary: "New BBC research shows nationalism is driving the spread of fake news" https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/bbc-beyond-fake-news-research https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/bbc-beyond...