OII: Polarization, Partisanship and Junk News Consumption over Social Media in the US

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

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Polarization, Partisanship and Junk News Consumption over Social Media in
the US

What kinds of social media users read junk news? We examine the
distribution of the most significant sources of junk news in the three
months before President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union Address.
Drawing on a list of sources that consistently publish political news and
information that is extremist, sensationalist, conspiratorial, masked
commentary, fake news and other forms of junk news, we find that the
distribution of such content is unevenly spread across the ideological
spectrum. We demonstrate that (1) on Twitter, a network of Trump supporters
shares the widest range of known junk news sources and circulates more junk
news than all the other groups put together; (2) on Facebook, extreme hard
right pages—distinct from Republican pages—share the widest range of known
junk news sources and circulate more junk news than all the other audiences
put together; (3) on average, the audiences for junk news on Twitter share
a wider range of known junk news sources than audiences on Facebook’s
public pages.

Vidya Narayanan, Vlad Barash, John Kelly, Bence Kollanyi, Lisa-Maria
Neudert, and Philip N. Howard. “Polarization, Partisanship and Junk News
Consumption over Social Media in the US.” Data Memo 2018.1. Oxford, UK:
Project on Computational Propaganda. comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk

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http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/polarization-partisanship-and-junk-news/



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