Fake News Challenge

Re:Fake News Challenge by garanduss on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @06:37PM (#13546559)

It looks like it was from The Economist and YouGov - I falsely remembered it being Pew. Here's a WaPo article with a summary and a link to the raw data:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/12/28/am...

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Re:Fake News Challenge by wybiral on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @07:07PM (#13546751)

Thanks. Yeah, those are some disturbing results...

Do you think it's mostly from misleading mainstream news stories? Or from smaller outlets (social media, celebrities, memes, etc)?

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Re:Fake News Challenge by garanduss on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @07:20PM (#13546837)

Misleading mainstream media, IMO. I'm conservative and the headlines about "election hacking" actually duped me until I had the time to read a thorough article about it.

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Re:Fake News Challenge by wybiral on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @07:30PM (#13546909)

I totally agree with you there. Most online news articles use those annoying click-bait titles and try to make the story seem bigger than it is (in a misleading way). Even weather.com does that crap with weather stories.

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