Fake news sharing in US is a rightwing thing, says study

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/06/sharing-fake-new...

University of Oxford project finds Trump supporters consume largest volume of ‘junk news’ on Facebook and Twitter

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Permalink Reply by Grinning Cat on February 10, 2018 at 12:05am

"One thing the study did not find is evidence of substantial amounts of Russian news sources being shared."

A lot of the content tweeted by Russian bots and trolls isn't from Russian news sources. Anything that fans the flames of discontent and division is fair game. See the real-time dashboard at "Hamilton68: tracking Russian influence operations on Twitter": dashboard.securingdemocracy.org.

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