Just kidding. It's exactly what you would expect.
Low-quality, extremist, sensationalist and conspiratorial news published in the US was overwhelmingly consumed and shared by rightwing social network users, according to a new study from the University of Oxford.
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“On Twitter, a network of Trump supporters consumes the largest volume of junk news, and junk news is the largest proportion of news links they share,” the researchers concluded. On Facebook, the skew was even greater. There, “extreme hard right pages – distinct from Republican pages – share more junk news than all the other audiences put together.”
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One thing the study did not find is evidence of substantial amounts of Russian news sources being shared. “The political conversations on social media exclude a Russian audience group,” the researchers concluded.
The Guardian
A Russian audience, as you know, is different than a Russian disinformation campaign aimed at an American audience.
FACEBOOK made available a
tool to allow users to see whether they had liked or followed a page linked to Russia’s attempt to influence the 2016 US election.
Facebook had promised to make such a tool available in November, after the company revealed in a congressional hearing that more than 140 million people may have been exposed to Russia-linked propaganda during the 2016 election cycle.
During the hearings earlier this year, Facebook released roughly 3,000 ads that it said it had linked to Russian accounts. But it has never released a list of the accounts and pages that it linked to Russia’s efforts.
The new tool shows users if they’ve liked or followed any pages on Facebook or Instagram that the company has linked to the Russia-based Internet Research Agency troll farm. But it does not tell users whether they were shown posts or ads from IRA-linked accounts, or whether the user had engaged with any of those posts or ads.
Wired
....but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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