Fake News Outperforms Real News at End of US Election

BuzzFeed reports that on Facebook (where 44% of Americans get their news), toward the end of the recent election, MORE PEOPLE were engaged with fake news than with real news.

Yes. This is horrifying!

Data and Graph from BuzzFeed.

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  1. […] Paul Crookstone rightly points out some of the flaws in BuzzFeed’s widely reported (we reported it here) story claiming that Americans engaged more with fake news than with real news on […]

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