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01-03-2018, 07:53 AM
The first scientific fake news study is here to confirm your worst fears about America
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A new study confirms your worst fears about fake news in the U.S. — it's widespread, skews pro-Trump, and is mostly consumed by your conservative uncle.
Oh, and fact checking hasn't worked at all.
A group of academic researchers have published (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/fake-news-2016.pdf) what they are calling the first scientific, data-based study of Americans’ exposure to fake news in the month surrounding the 2016 U.S. election.*
Combining survey responses and browsing histories of a representative sample of 2,525 Americans, the researchers found that one in four news consumers visited a fake news between Oct. 7 and Nov. 14, 2017.*
The report also studied the content itself. Fake news skewed almost entirely pro-Trump, and was consumed most voraciously by the most politically conservative Americans, according to the researchers. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/02/fake-news-scientific-study/)
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A new study confirms your worst fears about fake news in the U.S. — it's widespread, skews pro-Trump, and is mostly consumed by your conservative uncle.
Oh, and fact checking hasn't worked at all.
A group of academic researchers have published (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/fake-news-2016.pdf) what they are calling the first scientific, data-based study of Americans’ exposure to fake news in the month surrounding the 2016 U.S. election.*
Combining survey responses and browsing histories of a representative sample of 2,525 Americans, the researchers found that one in four news consumers visited a fake news between Oct. 7 and Nov. 14, 2017.*
The report also studied the content itself. Fake news skewed almost entirely pro-Trump, and was consumed most voraciously by the most politically conservative Americans, according to the researchers. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/02/fake-news-scientific-study/)
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