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Just how partisan is Facebook's fake news? We tested it |
September 08, 2017
It was only a few minutes after my imaginary Trump supporter “Todd White” began exploring Facebook that he learned filmmaker Michael Moore was staging a coup d’etat against president-elect Donald Trump. Todd also learned that Trump won the popular vote. And that there were people paid to protest at Trump rallies.None of that is true, of course. That’s the sort of fake news that was disseminated by Facebook—bogus content that many believe was written by partisan groups to influence the election. That belief was apparently confirmed Thursday, as The Washington Post reported that Facebook had sold ads to Russian "troll farms," presumably to influence the election. Previously, Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) had warned that potentially thousands of "trolls" had published posts to spread disinformation about Hillary Clinton.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3142412/windows/just-how-partisan-is-facebooks-fake-news-we-tested-it.html#tk.rss_all
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