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Re:Fact Check now available in Google Search and News by jnordwick on Friday April 07, 2017 @09:06PM (#14064655)
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.

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Re:Fact Check now available in Google Search and News by learc83 on Sunday April 09, 2017 @02:08PM (#14073542)
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?

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