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Is ‘fake news’ a fake problem? - Columbia Journalism Review
Curated:
22/02/2017 from
www.cjr.org/analysis/fake-news-facebook-audience-drudge-breitbart-study.php
my notes ( ? )
We know little about the amount of fake news an average citizen consumes, or how it fits into their overall news diet... What we found calls into question the severity of the fake news crisis.... We gathered data for both the real and fake news sites from comScore...
First, the fake news audience is tiny compared to the real news audience–about 10 times smaller... Online news audiences spent more time on average with real news than fake news. The one exception was Drudge Report... fake news audience does not exist in a filter bubble...
audiences found their way to fake news via social media at a much higher rate than they did to real news... nearly 30 percent of all fake news traffic could be linked back to Facebook, while only 8 percent of real news traffic could...
But exposure to news is one thing–how these audiences interpret the news is another.
First, the fake news audience is tiny compared to the real news audience–about 10 times smaller... Online news audiences spent more time on average with real news than fake news. The one exception was Drudge Report... fake news audience does not exist in a filter bubble...
audiences found their way to fake news via social media at a much higher rate than they did to real news... nearly 30 percent of all fake news traffic could be linked back to Facebook, while only 8 percent of real news traffic could...
But exposure to news is one thing–how these audiences interpret the news is another.
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