Trump supporters share more fake news on social media than any other political group, according to a new study from Oxford University.
Researchers studied more than 13,000 Twitter users and 47,000 Facebook pages in the days leading up to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address to determine which social media users spread the most “junk” news.
They discovered that Trump supporters on Twitter shared more unreliable news than all other groups combined. On Facebook, extreme conservatives share more junk news than all other audiences put together.
The researchers defined “junk news” as “misleading, deceptive or incorrect information purporting to be real news about politics, economics or culture”. A team of 12 researchers coded news stories to determine which sites were likely to broadcast this kind of news. The final list included sites like Breitbart News and InfoWars.
The researchers then recorded the activity of 13,477 Twitter users and 47,719 public Facebook pages in the three months leading up to the State of the Union, in order to see which users shared the most articles from these sites.
The users were then grouped into categories based on their ideologies. Twitter users, for example, were grouped into categories like “Trump support” or “resistance”. Facebook users fell into categories like “Democratic party,” “hard conservative,” or “conspiracy”.
The researchers found that 96 per cent of those in the “Trump support” category shared junk news on Twitter in the days leading up to the State of the Union. This group also shared more junk news than any other group combined. On Facebook, 91 per cent of the “hard conservatives group” shared junk news – even more than members of the “conspiracy” group.
These findings suggest that "a small chunk of the population isn’t able to talk politics or share ideas in a sensible way with the rest of the population,” lead researcher Philip Howard told McClatchy DC.
He added: “That’s a problem for democracy. In an ideal world, everybody would get at least a few of the same news stories. There’d be some shared facts and some shared understanding of the problems” facing the country.”
Mr Trump has long raged against what he calls the “fake news media” – a label he ascribes to reporting on everything from the Russia investigation to his TV viewing habits. The President even unveiled a fake news awards last month, in which he handed out to those he deemed the “most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media”.
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obviously this is fake news. trump supporters only believe in research done at Trump University.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
The users were then grouped into categories based on their ideologies. Twitter users, for example, were grouped into categories like “Trump support” or “resistance”. Facebook users fell into categories like “Democratic party,” “hard conservative,” or “conspiracy”.
I don't disagree with the premise of the article, I'm on FB and Twitter and I can pretty much tell you what the article says is true.. my only question is how did they determine which category people were in? I don't remember checking a box on that when I signed up for these social media platforms.. did they go back through 40K+ timelines to determine which category people belong in?
The users were then grouped into categories based on their ideologies. Twitter users, for example, were grouped into categories like “Trump support” or “resistance”. Facebook users fell into categories like “Democratic party,” “hard conservative,” or “conspiracy”.
I don't disagree with the premise of the article, I'm on FB and Twitter and I can pretty much tell you what the article says is true.. my only question is how did they determine which category people were in? I don't remember checking a box on that when I signed up for these social media platforms.. did they go back through 40K+ timelines to determine which category people belong in?
Big data analytics based on your posts and the circle of friends you have and share with others. They know a lot more about you than you think.
Reshaping or reposting fake news articles in order to point out the absurdity of the lefts thought processes should not count in the posting of fake news....I use to do this....but realized the vast majority of social media users have an startling inability to decipher truth and reality from sarcasm.....no party can claim intellectually superiority here.....both are full of effin idiots
If you’re posting fake news then you’re the problem. Period.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
If you’re posting fake news then you’re the problem. Period.
I forgot that the liberal education system has dumbed down the masses that they are unable to wipe the own back side let alone understand sarcasm...it also has hurt literacy as I said I quit because stupid people can’t read well enough to comprehend much of anything outside of the first sentence.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
i'm not the smartest so obviously you weren't talking to me.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Reshaping or reposting fake news articles in order to point out the absurdity of the lefts thought processes should not count in the posting of fake news....I use to do this....but realized the vast majority of social media users have an startling inability to decipher truth and reality from sarcasm.....no party can claim intellectually superiority here.....both are full of effin idiots
I have to agree with this. A lot of people share ridiculous stuff, and don't do it in a funny/ironic sort of way. Liberals, conservatives, political, and non-political alike.
Trump himself has stated on the record many times over the years that he doesn't read.
He also ordered that daily intelligence briefings be cut down, as they had too many words and not enough pictures. The bullet points still couldn't keep his attention, so Scavino has since resorted to adding in praise or compliments of Trump every two or three points to keep his attention.
You prove my point about left wing educated folks these days don’t get sarcasm.
Nice try though.
i didn't prove anything. you say so much stuff like that seriously that its impossible to know whether you're using sarcasm or not.
sarcasm doesn't work with you, cause there's a high probably you actually believe whatever nonsense you're posting.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
A report earlier in the week revealed Democratic lawmakers also met with a psychiatrist to question Trump’s mental health.
“Those statements are just absurd,” Pompeo said on “Fox News Sunday.”
“Just pure fantasy … The president is engaged, he understands the complexity, he asks really difficult questions of our team at the CIA so we can provide any information that he needs to make good, informed policy decisions.”
Pompeo said the only people who are questioning Trump’s fitness to be president are those that have not accepted that he is the leader of the country.
“Completely fit,” he said. “It’s just a ludicrous question. These are from people who just have not yet accepted the fact that President Trump is the United States’ president. I’m sorry for them."
Trump himself has stated on the record many times over the years that he doesn't read.
He also ordered that daily intelligence briefings be cut down, as they had too many words and not enough pictures. The bullet points still couldn't keep his attention, so Scavino has since resorted to adding in praise or compliments of Trump every two or three points to keep his attention.
Once again, they are not talking about trump but others, and you bring trump into it.....
TDS full fledged. Maybe this will hope. I hope it does.
“Completely fit,” he said. “It’s just a ludicrous question. These are from people who just have not yet accepted the fact that President Trump is the United States’ president. I’m sorry for them."
PDF, see above from CIA Director. Maybe this is a dose for your TDS. It shall ease the pain.
Meanwhile.....The website, Petitions.WhiteHouse.gov, was shut down in December and just relaunched. Administration officials have promised to respond to petitions that cross the signature threshold "within 60 days," despite several popular petitions that remain on the site unanswered.
The site allows users to create petitions that will receive an official White House response if they receive 100,000 signatures.
Several petitions critical of the president remain unanswered on the website, including two demanding the release of his tax returns and one that demands his resignation.
Other petitions, including one declaring "Antifa" protesters as "terrorists," also remain unanswered, despite crossing the 100,000-signature threshold.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Thomas Jefferson.
Trump himself has stated on the record many times over the years that he doesn't read.
He also ordered that daily intelligence briefings be cut down, as they had too many words and not enough pictures. The bullet points still couldn't keep his attention, so Scavino has since resorted to adding in praise or compliments of Trump every two or three points to keep his attention.
Once again, they are not talking about trump but others, and you bring trump into it.....
TDS full fledged. Maybe this will hope. I hope it does.
“Completely fit,” he said. “It’s just a ludicrous question. These are from people who just have not yet accepted the fact that President Trump is the United States’ president. I’m sorry for them."
PDF, see above from CIA Director. Maybe this is a dose for your TDS. It shall ease the pain.
What does that quote have to do with the fact that Trump is a moron who doesn't read, and has such a good brain that his staff has to insert praise into dumbed down briefing reports to keep his mind from wandering?
2 trump negatives = 1 trump positive. 10 trump negatives = he has finished his morning toilet tweeting for the day. 365 Days of complete chaos in the White House = Trump getting things done. Fake positives + poop tweeting + chaos = Winning???
Trump himself has stated on the record many times over the years that he doesn't read.
He also ordered that daily intelligence briefings be cut down, as they had too many words and not enough pictures. The bullet points still couldn't keep his attention, so Scavino has since resorted to adding in praise or compliments of Trump every two or three points to keep his attention.
Once again, they are not talking about trump but others, and you bring trump into it.....
TDS full fledged. Maybe this will hope. I hope it does.
I get that you can't argue that the man isn't a racist moron, but squaking acronyms like a parrot makes you look worse than if you'd just accept it.
I get that your disease does not allow you to post or talk about anything other than Trump himself - and you would go into a stroke if you ever posted anything with his name no included in it - however, your case seems to be flaring up today worse than most. maybe this will help...
Once again, what does have to do with him being such an airhead that his staff had to completely re-work briefing reports?
This is precisely what I'm talking about. You guys know there's no argument against him being a racist moron, so when you're faced with concrete examples of his racism and idiocy, you get backed into a corner and ramble about how he's the president and people who are aware of the reality of his stupidity are deranged.
"Trump doesn't read." "That's a lie!" "No, he's said so himself, many times." "Oh...He's the president! Deranged!"
Once again, what does have to do with him being such an airhead that his staff had to completely re-work briefing reports?
This is precisely what I'm talking about. You guys know there's no argument against him being a racist moron, so when you're faced with concrete examples of his racism and idiocy, you get backed into a corner and ramble about how he's the president and people who are aware of the reality of his stupidity are deranged.
Yet the comments you have made have been debunked over and over again.....so there is that.
"hes racist" - received awards for work he did for the black community, has received praise from just about every person of color he has met since in office....
my favorite of yours "he has dementia" - because one, you have a medical degree, and 2. he passes cognitive test with flying colors proving once again you are INCORRECT.
dude, your butt hurt over him its scary. I am sure you have a lot of trump pictures laying around dried up stained socks - but its really sad.
"he's a racist" - received awards for work he did for the black community, has received praise from just about every person of color he has met since in office....
This is the part where I point out that he's been fined four times for racist business practices - twice by the NJ Gaming Commission because, after repeated warnings, he insisted that black employees be removed from the floor while he gambled, and twice by the Justice Department for making his employees mark and throw away applications from blacks. Then you'll ignore it and ramble about him being the president.
If you want, feel free to also ignore the fact that he's said he doesn't allow black people to count or handle his money, and that he spent five years completely lying about sending investigators to prove the president was born in Africa, or that he took out ads calling Native Americans drug addicts who shouldn't be around New York City. There's also the time that he reiterated his desire to execute the Central Park Five after their innocence was proven because he thought they were "subhuman".
Looking forward to you completely ignoring these undeniably racist acts.
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he passes cognitive test with flying colors proving once again you are INCORRECT
I love that he's such an embarrassment that you guys have resorted to "he correctly identified the picture of a camel, so there!"
dude, your butt hurt over him its scary. I am sure you have a lot of trump pictures laying around dried up stained socks - but its really sad.
I abhor racism. I'm also not fond of sexual predators. That doesn't make me "butt hurt", it just means I have a sense of conscience and morality.
ahh yes, you "abhor sexual predators" yet allow them to prey on co-workers. . . . . .that's rich.
and again, you completely dodge the point about being completely WRONG about the dementia diagnosis your VAST medical experience provided countless times on this board. funny, as soon as that came out that you are wrong (once again), you stopped saying it in your obsessive rants.
dude, your butt hurt over him its scary. I am sure you have a lot of trump pictures laying around dried up stained socks - but its really sad.
I abhor racism. I'm also not fond of sexual predators. That doesn't make me "butt hurt", it just means I have a sense of conscience and morality.
ahh yes, you "abhor sexual predators" yet allow them to prey on co-workers. . . . . .that's rich.
and again, you completely dodge the point about being completely WRONG about the dementia diagnosis your VAST medical experience provided countless times on this board. funny, as soon as that came out that you are wrong (once again), you stopped saying it in your obsessive rants.
Seek help.
I love that whenever it gets pointed out that Trump is a sexual predator, you guys retort with "Oh, yeah, remember when your friend got sexually assaulted?"
It's creepy depravity is only rivaled by its desperation.
Why not just man up and say "I don't mind that the guy is a sexual predator"? Why dance around it by pointing out that my friend got sexually assaulted?
And I didn't dodge anything. If you scroll up, you'll clearly see I mocked you for countering the fact that Trump is a senile moron with "he passed a basic aptitude test", because there's no denying he's an imbecile.
Speaking of dodging - remember ten minutes ago when I predicted you would dodge all of those concrete examples of Trump's racism, and you did just that?
Once again, you cant make a single point without posting baseless lies.
Has he ever been charged with being a predator? Nope. So unless you have a proven conviction, you are wrong again. like usually. TDS full force. Man......you are weak.
once again, you tried to state he was suffering from dementia, over and over, and were proven wrong by the test. You can own up to it, or continue to try to save face, but when you do - you just look more desperate.
dude, your butt hurt over him its scary. I am sure you have a lot of trump pictures laying around dried up stained socks - but its really sad.
I abhor racism. I'm also not fond of sexual predators. That doesn't make me "butt hurt", it just means I have a sense of conscience and morality.
ahh yes, you "abhor sexual predators" yet allow them to prey on co-workers. . . . . .that's rich.
and again, you completely dodge the point about being completely WRONG about the dementia diagnosis your VAST medical experience provided countless times on this board. funny, as soon as that came out that you are wrong (once again), you stopped saying it in your obsessive rants.
Seek help.
I love that whenever it gets pointed out that Trump is a sexual predator, you guys retort with "Oh, yeah, remember when your friend got sexually assaulted?"
It's creepy depravity is only rivaled by its desperation.
And, I love how you continuously bring up other's past posts as something that is relative.
Be careful doing that.
Sometimes I wonder if you're quite the Mensa member you appear to want to be.
You ARE, however, "good" at dodging, and also retaliating with personal digs. And, in your mind, diagnosing others without any degree or face to face meetings, or the ability to state anything other than your opinion, as fact.
I will give you this: You are negative, constantly, towards pretty much everything. So, you are consistent.
Once again, you cant make a single point without posting baseless lies.
Has he ever been charged with being a predator? Nope. So unless you have a proven conviction, you are wrong again. like usually. TDS full force. Man......you are weak.
once again, you tried to state he was suffering from dementia, over and over, and were proven wrong by the test. You can own up to it, or continue to try to save face, but when you do - you just look more desperate.
He bragged about being a sexual predator, on tape, to Billy Bush.
For the third time, I'm not dodging anything. You are. Remember 10 minutes ago when you said it was a lie that Trump is a racist, and I listed a litany of racist acts of his, predicting that you'd dodge it, which you continue to do?
Also for the third time - passing a basic aptitude test where you identify a picture of a cow doesn't preclude the fact that Trump is a moron whose mental faculties are deteriorating. Just listen to the man speak. You can't just own up and say "yeah, the guy's dumb as a brick and his mind is fading, but he's a useful tool for political ends", so you have to act like a basic cognition test somehow erases the fact that the guy rambles stuff like "I have a very good brain, I think good and I know all the best words".
Don't you find it the least bit troubling that the guy is so obviously gruel-brained hat you have been reduced to "being a moron isn't illegal" and "he passed a cognition test"? Shouldn't that tell you something?
My assertion is that he's an idiot who is far less lucid than he used to be, has trouble understand basic concepts even when explained to him like a child and often loses focus on what's going on around him. That is all most certainly true, and an aptitude test doesn't dispel any of it.
But again, could you explain to me how marking housing applications with "C" for "colored" isn't racist? Or are you going to continue to dodge?
Why even bother making the "he's not racist" argument when you know full well that he is, and that you'll just slink off into silence when the evidence is laid out?
There were more instances than just 1973 (Trump refused to stop doing it), but even so..."he was really racist a long time ago, so maybe it shouldn't count" is a bad argument.
Why do you keep trying this weird "maybe he's not racist anymore" angle?
The only way that would make any sense is if the guy addressed it, saying something to the effect of "I've done a lot of shameful racist things in my past, but I've changed". Not only has he never done that, but he's still actively racist. He launched his political aspirations on the premise that he was sending investigators to Hawaii to prove Obama was born in Africa. He spent five years - FIVE - going on television saying "my investigators are finding some amazing things". He launched his campaign by calling Mexicans "rapists", hired a man deemed too racist to be a federal judge as his attorney general, and his first pardon was to a felon who was convicted of racist policing tactics he refused to stop doing after being ordered. It was like, what, last week when he said he wanted immigrants from "Norway or Denmark"? Two weeks ago?
What planet do you live on to think "gee, maybe he's not racist anymore"?
Also for the third time - passing a basic aptitude test where you identify a picture of a cow doesn't preclude the fact that Trump is a moron
no no no no no, once again you are deflecting and flat out LYING!
You said he had dementia over and over again, did you not? Those "basic" test, are a medical standard proving if someone has dementia or early onset dementia. He passed. You were wrong, and cannot ADMIT the fact you were.
You have been proven wrong, proven to try to post opinion as fact, and therefor have no relevance left on this board.
