(CNN) First the good news: The vast majority of Facebook users did not share any fake news stories during the 2016 election. And a new study analyzing users' Facebook posts during that time identified the age group sharing many of those fake stories. On average, those Facebook users shared nearly seven times as many articles from fake news domains as the youngest age group, according to a study published Wednesday in Science Advances, a peer-reviewed journalConservatives were more likely to share stories from fake news domains, the study said, with a pro-Donald Trump orientation in 2016 . The study relied on users' Facebook sharing history instead of asking them to self-report that history. On the whole, the vast majority of Facebook users did not post fake news stories from these sites.

Source: CNN January 10, 2019 18:56 UTC