Originally posted by DarthPlaguis12So you have a backstory... Cool TI.
Putinbot you're not trolling? You're name isn't trollish?Reminds me of the people I run into on fb who are on the left who are all about compassion and multiculturalism till you disagree with them, then they'll ask me if I know trump wants to deport me even though I was born in the USA.
Originally posted by Adam_PoEOxford Internet Institute: Polarization, Partisanship, and Junk News Consumption Over Social Media in the U.S.What kinds of social media users read junk news?
We examine the distribution of the most significant sources of junk news in the three months before Trump’s first State of the Union Address.
Drawing on a list of sources that consistently publish political news and information that is extremist, sensationalist, conspiratorial, masked commentary, fake news, and other forms of junk news, we find that the distribution of such content is unevenly spread across the ideological spectrum.
We demonstrate that:
[list][*]On Twitter, a network of Trump supporters shares the widest range of known junk news sources and circulates more junk news than all the other groups put together.
[*]On Facebook, extreme hard right pages share the widest range of known junk news sources and circulate more junk news than all the other audiences put together.[/list]
Backers of President Donald Trump are sharing more "junk" political news—ideologically extreme, conspiratorial, sensationalist, and phony information—over Twitter and Facebook than all other groups combined, significantly magnifying the polarization in the American electorate, according to an analysis by British researchers.
Rather than obtaining news over social media from mainstream outlets, these Americans shared posts from 92 Twitter accounts of fringe groups during the three months before Trump’s first State of the Union address, the Oxford University researchers reported.
The study, which culled data from hundreds of thousands of social media accounts, found similar patterns among Facebook users.
Among a sample of Twitter users with strong connections to one of 10 groups along the political spectrum, the researchers found that 96 percent of Trump backers widely shared "junk" news and did so more than all other groups combined. Among 13 similar categories of Facebook users, 91 percent of "hard conservatives" circulated junk news, also more than all other categories combined.
The report also concluded that the "facts" reported by far right sites shared by Trump supporters are so detached from reality that it makes dialogue with them completely impossible:
Although the "junk" news sites considered in the analysis included those on both the left and right, lead researcher Philip Howard said the findings suggest "that most of the junk news that people share over social media ends up with Trump’s fans, the far right. They’re playing with different facts, and they think they have the inside scoop on conspiracies."
As a result, he said in a phone interview, it appears 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."