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1.4 KiB
Misinformation
Media outlets often spread misinformation and bias without refuting it
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- Study examining the prevalence of fake news shared over facebook.
- “Conservatives were more likely to share articles from fake news domains,” which are examined thoroughly in the methodology.
- These domains, in 2016, were “largely pro-Trump in orientation”
- “On average, users over 65 shared nearly seven times as many articles from fake news domains as the youngest age group.”
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Media Matters: Gertz and Savillo 19
- Outlets amplified misinformation derived from Donald Trump’s Twitter more than 400 times over the three-week period of the study -- a rate of 19 per day.
- 30% of the tweets by major media outlets’ Twitter accounts about Trump remarks referenced a false or misleading statement.
- Nearly two-thirds of the time, the outlets did not dispute that misinformation.
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- With a very thorough methodological analysis (adfontes)
