With another presidential election around the corner, a question from the last still lingers: Did fake news help Donald Trump beat Hilary Clinton in the race for the White House? It depends on whom you ask, and how you define “fake news,” writes CShalby
. The survey-takers’ responses were compared to the ratings of eight professional fact-checkers.
“There is a vast menagerie of misinformation,” Lazer said. ”It’s particularly insidious because it undermines the legitimacy of the mainstream news.”Some news consumers are more gullible than others, and age may have something to do with it.published in January in the journal Science Advances examined the behavioral data of 1,191 Facebook users who gave researchers access to their account activity so they could see the types of links that were shared on the platform.
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