Elderly, conservatives shared more Facebook fakery in 2016
WASHINGTON — Sharing false information on Facebook is old.People over 65 and ultra conservatives shared about seven times more fake information masquerading as news on the social media site than younger adults, moderates and super liberals during the 2016 election season, a new study finds.The first major study to look at who is sharing links from debunked sites finds that not many people are doing it. On average only 8.5 percent of those […]
