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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/04/03/a-new-study-suggests-fake-news-might-have-won-donald-trump-the-2016-election/?utm_term=.da9a16132d60BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)for exposure.
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)The exaggeration of the private email server and the "late" announcement of new emails found on Weiner's laptop (via Huma) plus all of the "fake" stories running around about child sex rings run out of pizza parlors and killing of DNC staffer and blah blah blah...
It was enough in just enough places to give an electoral college win to dumpster.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)post election and the Washington Post finally reports what it knew weeks before that election. Geez.
triron
(22,007 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Because.....just because.
mountain grammy
(26,624 posts)Takket
(21,577 posts)and nate silver has already spoken on this many times
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Did anyone here not know all of this the night of Nov 8th?
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)The same dupes will be similarly targeted in 2018, 2020, and forever unless and until we are able to equitably regulate the fine line that separates real from fake news. People have the right to know if a story is properly attributed and the level of verifiable fact in each report. We have the right to demand that a program designed to be entertainment and opinion-driven as opposed to news and fact-driven clearly identify itself as such.
Until we take these simple measures, WashPo will just keep writing this same article every 2 or 4 years.
Mr.Bill
(24,303 posts)they will vote for again even if it is proven he is the one running a child sex slave ring out of the basement of a pizza joint.
certainot
(9,090 posts)that's what sam nunberg said - he listened to 1000's of hours of it. (gabriel sherman - new york magazine 4/3/16). said they used it to design their primary run and probably used it to coordinate with the russians - and there's no mention of it.
all his shit is talk radio
no wonder we're in this mess, our analysts and writers have no fucking clue
progree
(10,909 posts)The MercuryNews one has it in full.
CousinIT
(9,247 posts)The study, from the universitys computational propaganda project, looked at the most significant sources of junk news shared in the three months leading up to Donald Trumps 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.
The research involved monitoring a core group of around 13,500 politically-active US Twitter users, and a separate group of 48,000 public Facebook pages, to find the external websites that they were sharing.
Users who shared similar collections of links were grouped together depending on what they were discussing: on Twitter, some identified cohorts included Conservative Media, Trump Supporters (a distinct group from Republican Party) and Resistance; on Facebook, those audience groups included Hard Conservative, Womens Rights and Military/Guns.
The findings speak to the level of polarisation common across the US political divide. The two main political parties, Democrats and Republicans, prefer different sources of political news, with limited overlap, the researchers write.
But there was a clear skew in who shared links from the 91 sites the researchers had manually coded as junk news (based on breaching at least three of five quality standards including professionalism, bias and credibility). The Trump Support group consumes the highest volume of junk news sources on Twitter, and spreads more junk news sources, than all the other groups put together. This pattern is repeated on Facebook, where the Hard Conservatives group consumed the highest proportion of junk news.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Even then, their lizard brains cannot grasp the implications.
They just want to watch the NFL, The Walking Dead, and eat another 5000-calorie meal at Applebees.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)also cost her states like Florida, North Carolina and Arizona.
The media constantly makes it sound like she only had a shot at eeking out a narrow victory. In reality, she was looking at a landslide win until 2 1/2 weeks before the election.
The polls weren't wrong--the polls changed. And nothing Donald Trump did on the campaign trail made them change--Putin and Comey did.
madville
(7,412 posts)that DHS will begin evaluating and registering news organizations as legitimate or not. If the government can;t regulate fake news then who will, biased corporations?
TCJ70
(4,387 posts)I saw so much garbage online this past election.