Older, right-leaning Twitter users spread the most fake news in 2016, study finds

CirrhosisDawg said:

RaceBannon said:

insinceredawg said:

You still believe in Pizzagate, Seth Rich's murder conspiracy, and Uranium One?

Believe in? Still? Stop being such a caricature

Uranium 1 is real the rest is nonsense that you will never find a post from me on

I can go back one week and get you rather easily spreading fake news. Heal yourself and keep my name out of your mouth

Protectionism and nativism work
Uranium one is real
Deep state
Spy gate

Sad.

UW_Doog_Bot said:

https://businessinsider.com/what-fake-news-readers-actually-look-like-2017-9

[Plus, it's an important reminder that liberal readers (and voters) are also susceptible to the lure of a too-good-to-be-true headline.

"The most surprising finding of our study is that fake news affects both the right and the left, the educated and uneducated," The Trade Desk's CEO, Jeff Green, told Business Insider.]

[According to The Trade Desk, fake-news readers on the right were more likely to be older, white, and in the military or work for the federal government.

They were about 56 times as likely to be Gen-Xers, 22 times as likely to be white, and 21 times as likely to be male than Americans as a whole. They were also 39 times as likely to be in the property industry than

the US population at large, and 27 times as likely to be over 65.]

[Fake-news readers on the left were more likely to be affluent and college-educated, wealthy, and in financial services.

Specifically, they were 54 times as likely to be politically influential, 34 times as likely to be college graduates, and 31 times as likely to be "positive idealists" than the overall US population.]

I'm glad we can all agree that fact based reporting should be a foundation of good journalism in the media. I look forward to your future posts supporting that position.