Did Fake News On Facebook Help Elect Trump?

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.

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/11/601323233/6-facts-we-know-about-fake-news-in-the-2016-election

Nuclear War "Fake News"

Yesterday, on April 29, 2018 at 6:35 p.m., there was a video posted on the local media by someone supposedly from BBC News, saying that there was a nuclear bombing happening in the United Kingdom, caused by the Russians' naval ships launching missiles. Quite a few people did not agree that the news was real, because no other news channel was talking about it, except the mystery man from BBC News. More male than female viewers believed that it may be false, the females were easily convinced otherwise. “Over the last couple of days we have had people contact various BBC bureaux, mainly in Africa and Asia, as they had seen the video on WhatsApp and wanted to check if it was a real BBC report,” a spokesperson for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/19/bbc-denies-reporting-outbreak-nuclear-war/