Fake news sharing in US is a rightwing thing, says study

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Fake news sharing in US is a rightwing thing, says study
University of Oxford project finds Trump supporters consume largest volume of ‘junk news’ on Facebook and Twitter
Alex Hern  @alexhern
Tue 6 Feb 2018 04.59 EST Last modified on Tue 6 Feb 2018 07.25 EST
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/06/sharing-fake-news-us-rightwing-study-trump-university-of-oxford

Low-quality, extremist, sensationalist and conspiratorial news published in the US was overwhelmingly consumed and shared by rightwing social network users, according to a new study from the University of Oxford.

The study, from the university’s “computational propaganda project”, looked at the most significant sources of “junk news” shared in the three months leading up to Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address this January, and tried to find out who was sharing them and why.

“On Twitter, a network of Trump supporters consumes the largest volume of junk news, and junk news is the largest proportion of news links they share,” the researchers concluded. On Facebook, the skew was even greater. There, “extreme hard right pages – distinct from Republican pages – share more junk news than all the other audiences put together.”

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[Sanguine]

This study is a great example of fake news.

[XenaLee]

Fake news sharing in US is a rightwing thing, says study
University of Oxford project finds Trump supporters consume largest volume of ‘junk news’ on Facebook and Twitter
Alex Hern  @alexhern
Tue 6 Feb 2018 04.59 EST Last modified on Tue 6 Feb 2018 07.25 EST
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/06/sharing-fake-news-us-rightwing-study-trump-university-of-oxford

Low-quality, extremist, sensationalist and conspiratorial news published in the US was overwhelmingly consumed and shared by rightwing social network users, according to a new study from the University of Oxford.

The study, from the university’s “computational propaganda project”, looked at the most significant sources of “junk news” shared in the three months leading up to Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address this January, and tried to find out who was sharing them and why.

“On Twitter, a network of Trump supporters consumes the largest volume of junk news, and junk news is the largest proportion of news links they share,” the researchers concluded. On Facebook, the skew was even greater. There, “extreme hard right pages – distinct from Republican pages – share more junk news than all the other audiences put together.”

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Hmmm..... does this mean that Trump supporters.... meaning the righties.... are having to deal with the vast amount of 'fake news' that is coming from the left then?  Well...

duh.

[The_Reader_David]

Of course this "study" depends on a definition of fake news that seems to exclude Dan Rather's reporting on Bush's National Guard service, Jayson Blair's pieces in the NYTimes and the Rolling Stone "expose" of "rape culture" at UVa.  If you define "fake news" in such a way that the instances of lies and credulous spreading of ill-verified information by outlets on the left and center-left don't count, of course the phenomenon is concentrated on the right.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Sigh... let's not pretend this isn't a problem on the right here. Yes leftists have done it no doubt, but it seems every natural news sharing kook is a right winger these days.

[skeeter]

Fake news sharing in US is a rightwing thing, says study
University of Oxford project finds Trump supporters consume largest volume of ‘junk news’ on Facebook and Twitter
Alex Hern  @alexhern
Tue 6 Feb 2018 04.59 EST Last modified on Tue 6 Feb 2018 07.25 EST
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/06/sharing-fake-news-us-rightwing-study-trump-university-of-oxford

Low-quality, extremist, sensationalist and conspiratorial news published in the US was overwhelmingly consumed and shared by rightwing social network users, according to a new study from the University of Oxford.

The study, from the university’s “computational propaganda project”, looked at the most significant sources of “junk news” shared in the three months leading up to Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address this January, and tried to find out who was sharing them and why.

“On Twitter, a network of Trump supporters consumes the largest volume of junk news, and junk news is the largest proportion of news links they share,” the researchers concluded. On Facebook, the skew was even greater. There, “extreme hard right pages – distinct from Republican pages – share more junk news than all the other audiences put together.”

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Of course low-quality, extremist, sensationalist and conspiratorial news can be objectively determined. And who better to do that than Oxford University.

Garbage study, fake news.

[Restored]

Creating a narrative about Fake News by using Fake News

[XenaLee]

Creating a narrative about Fake News by using Fake News

Hmm.....come to think of it.... that.... kinda describes the FISAgate scandal in a nutshell.  Only substitute the word "news" for "evidence".  The left is really on a roll....

[Emjay]

This study is a great example of fake news.

It is and it is also a great example of People Speak.

My Facebook page is consumed with political news, all of which is either pro-Trump or debunking and criticizing fake news from the MSM.

The major news outlets will have to learn.  Walter Cronkite is dead, and they will never be able to completely control the news again.