After the 2016 election, many feared that fake news articles
spread on Facebook swayed the results of the election. It's a broad but
reasonable leap to make: many purveyors of fake news aimed to help Trump win,
and lo and behold, Trump won. Social media plays a bigger role in bringing
people to fake news sites than it plays in bringing them to real news sites.
More than one-quarter of voting-age adults visited a fake news website
supporting either Clinton or Trump in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. Not
sure if remembered any articles on facebook during the time of the election but
if they were fake or real either way they got people to vote for Trump. Maybe
they just target certain fackebook account. Weird how social media can control
our minds.
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