The following article by Ryan Grenoble was posted on the Huffington Post website February 6, 2018:
Fifty-five percent of all junk news traffic on Twitter can be linked to Trump supporters, researchers said.
Trump supporters and extreme conservatives consume and share more “junk news” on social media than every other political group combined, a University of Oxford study has found.
The three-month study, published Tuesday as part of the school’s Computational Propaganda Research Project, scrutinized the habits of 13,477 politically active U.S. Twitter users and 47,719 public Facebook pages in the months leading up to the State of the Union address late last month. Continue reading “Trump Supporters Consume And Share The Most Fake News, Oxford Study Finds”