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turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 02:06 PM Jan 2018

New Study: Facebook Most Important In Spreading Fake News

Reprinted with permission from MediaMatters.

Facebook is “the most important mechanism facilitating the spread of fake news” and its efforts to curb the spread of fake news through fact-checking are unlikely to succeed, according to a new study.

The 2016 election saw the rise of fake news websites which distributed fabricated information packaged to appear as legitimate news articles. The study, released last week by the political scientists Andrew Guess, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler, examined web traffic data collected from the computers of a national sample of Americans from October 7-November 14, 2016 — a period which includes the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign — in order to map who consumed fake news and which platforms helped spread it.

The political scientists estimated that more than a quarter of American adults visited a page on a pro-Donald Trump or pro-Hillary Clinton fake news website. Most of the fake news was pro-Trump, and people who supported his campaign were significantly more likely to visit fake news sites than people who supported Clinton.



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Last month, Media Matters named Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg our Misinformer of the Year, noting Facebook’s central position in the fake news infrastructure and its repeated failures to respond.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/new-study-facebook-important-spreading-fake-news/


The only "THING" Zuckerburg is worried about is stock valuation, and doesn't give a rats ass about informing the public of mis-leading information on his platform, he has no fucking credibility, or principles, he is only worried about his bottom line.

When his stock came out it did not make initial public offering

https://www.cnbc.com/id/47043815

I am so glad I do not have a account on that platform or it's stock





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New Study: Facebook Most Important In Spreading Fake News (Original Post) turbinetree Jan 2018 OP
@#$% Fakebook. Scurrilous Jan 2018 #1
All Zuckerburg cares about is his net worth dalton99a Jan 2018 #2
farcebook Raster Jan 2018 #3
I've never clicked a news link on FB. LanternWaste Jan 2018 #4

dalton99a

(81,073 posts)
2. All Zuckerburg cares about is his net worth
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 02:12 PM
Jan 2018

Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev, left, met with Mark Zuckerberg, chief of Facebook, at Mr. Medvedev's Gorki residence outside Moscow.
 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
4. I've never clicked a news link on FB.
Wed Jan 3, 2018, 03:55 PM
Jan 2018

I don't think I've ever clicked a news link on FB.

Though, being the under-evolved person that I am, I do have an account with FB, and can easily spend as much time there as on DU (despite the reasons for my visits to each being vastly different).

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