How Fake News Goes ViralImageEric Tucker, a 35-year-old co-founder of a marketing company in Austin, Tex., had just about 40 Twitter followers. Mr. Tucker's post was shared at least 16,000 times on Twitter and more than 350,000 times on Facebook. Mr. Tucker’s tweet was posted to the main Reddit community for Mr. Trump under the heading: “BREAKING: They found the buses! Then, shortly after 9 p.m., Mr. Trump sent this tweet:Just had a very open and successful presidential election. “I figured if he were to say something like that, I might be barking up the same tree,” Mr. Tucker said.

Source: New York Times November 20, 2016 16:39 UTC