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Research note: The scale of Facebook’s problem depends upon how ‘fake news’ is classified

Richard Rogers

Ushering in the contemporary ‘fake news’ crisis, Craig Silverman of Buzzfeed News reported that it outperformed mainstream news on Facebook in the three months prior to the 2016 US presidential elections. Here the report’s methods and findings are revisited for 2020.

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