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Originally Posted by finnbow
And the primary purveyor of this particular trash is InfoWars' Alex Jones, a friend of Trump's whose reputation Trump refers to as "amazing" and who one of the very first people to receive a phone call from Trump after the election.
Here's another factoid for you:
Legitimate news stories outperformed the fake ones in the early months of the 2016 election campaign. But in the last three months, fake news sources saw their engagement surge. There’s a clear partisan dimension to this story. According to Silverman, 17 out of the 20 fake news stories had information favoring Donald Trump.
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This old news has new relevance in the light of recent revelations re the Russians’ widespread use of social media to influence the election in Trump’s favor. Just how much of this fake news was generated by the ruskies, and fed to the InfoWars idiot?