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and more: "approximately 57% of Trump supporters read at least one fake news article in the month prior to the 2016 election compared to only 28% of Clinton su
by chrbutler 5y ago
and more:
"approximately 57% of Trump supporters read at least one fake news article in the month prior to the 2016 election compared to only 28% of Clinton supporters. Older Americans were also more likely to visit untrustworthy news websites.
Perhaps most alarming is the observed “stickiness” of fake news websites. The researchers estimate that people spend an average of 64 seconds consuming a fake news articles compared to only 42 seconds on verified news stories."
- axguscbklp 5y agoThese statistics do not mean much if based on a politically biased definition of what "fake news" is. I count much of the mainstream left-leaning media's reporting on BLM-related issues as fake news because it is based on an accidental or deliberate misreading of crime and policing statistics. If you used my definition of fake news, the percentages that you quote would probably be quite different.