Trump supporters and extreme conservatives consume and share more “junk news” on social media than every other political group combined, a University of Oxford study has found. The authors then mapped how links to junk news sources flowed through the social media networks. The study linked a full 55 percent of all junk news traffic on Twitter to the “Trump Support” group. For comparison, the “Democratic Party” and “Progressive Movement” groups together accounted for 1 percent of junk news traffic on Twitter, according to the study. (The “Democratic Party” group accounted for 12 percent.)

Source: Huffington Post February 07, 2018 01:07 UTC