Re:Fact Check now available in Google Search and News
by jnordwick on Friday April 07, 2017 @09:06PM
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What you are asking is impossible to my knowledge. I don't know of any tracking for why people share or the political affiliation of those that shared it.
This also means you argument is purely conjecture too.
Re:Fact Check now available in Google Search and News
by learc83 on Sunday April 09, 2017 @02:08PM
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Of course my argument is conjecture. I based it solely on my sample size of a few hundred Facebook friends--clearly stated.
Absent other evidence to the contrary, that is enough to convince me that people sharing fake news mostly believe it.
If you have some other evidence to present--please go ahead. Do the majority of your over 45, conservative Facebook friends and family regularly share fake news just to point out that it's fake?
I'm also willing to donate $100 to a charity of your choice if you can find evidence that a significant portion, (let's say more than 25%) of fake news being shared on Facebook is just people doing it to say "look how fake this is."