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So Stanford did a study on Fake News. And it generally, found that fake news wasn’t as impactful as often claimed
However, buried inside the details were a couple of notes wort more attention than Stanford gave them. The stories they looked at stories which were purportedly debunked at places like Snopes. Of those, the two fake news stories most believed by the US adult population were both favorable to Hillary! LOL
Blue here is the % that believed a story and red is “not sure.”
https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/fakenews.pdf
And here are links on those 2 stories gullible Dems chose to believe, w/o any evidence
http://www.politifact.com/californi...akes-false-claim-about-denhams-role-trump-ho/
http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-pu...-clinton-donald-trump-benghazi-sputnik-508635
However, buried inside the details were a couple of notes wort more attention than Stanford gave them. The stories they looked at stories which were purportedly debunked at places like Snopes. Of those, the two fake news stories most believed by the US adult population were both favorable to Hillary! LOL
Blue here is the % that believed a story and red is “not sure.”
https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/fakenews.pdf
And here are links on those 2 stories gullible Dems chose to believe, w/o any evidence
http://www.politifact.com/californi...akes-false-claim-about-denhams-role-trump-ho/
http://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-pu...-clinton-donald-trump-benghazi-sputnik-508635