freshly from me : How false election news outperformed literal election news on Facebook in net months of the US electionhttps://t.co/rAYsI0mZ2Wpic.twitter.com/42qDEDgwKy
— Craig Silverman ( @CraigSilverman)November 16 , 2016
On the websites it tracked , Buzzfeed discover four of the five top performing news report came from fake news show web site , with a undivided article from The Washington Post attain the stratum of betrothal attain by stories like “ WikiLeaks CONFIRMS Hillary Sold Weapons to ISIS ” and “ FBI Agent Suspected in Hillary Email Leaks constitute Dead in Apparent Murder - Suicide ” between August and election Clarence Day .
https://gizmodo.com/facebook-has-thought-about-the-election-and-decided-it-1788923651
“ Of all the content on Facebook , more than 99 % of what people see is authentic,”wrote Zuckerberg . “ Only a very small amount is fake news and humbug . The hoaxes that do exist are not limited to one partisan view , or even to government . Overall , this makes it super unlikely hoaxes vary the outcome of this election in one direction or the other . ”
Zuckerberg ’s claim that hoaxes are not partisan seems every bit fishy . According to Buzzfeed ’s analysis , 17 of the 20 top - performing fake election stories were “ overtly pro - Donald Trump or anti - Hillary Clinton . ” And on Monday , Gizmodo report that Facebookdeveloped a tool to fight back fake intelligence storiesthat stop up disproportionately affecting right - wing news land site ( the pecker was never deployed ) .
https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-fight-against-fake-news-was-undercut-by-fear-1788808204
Gizmodo has reached out to Facebook for gossip . This spot will be update if and when they respond .
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