Trump supporters share more fake news than anyone else, study shows

February 07, 2018 20:10

Trump supporters share more fake news on social media than any other political group, according to a new study from Oxford University.

Researchers studied more than 13,000 Twitter users and 47,000 Facebook pages in the days leading up to President Donald Trumps State of the Union Address to determine which social media users spread the most junk news.

They discovered that Trump supporters on Twitter shared more unreliable news than all other groups combined. On Facebook, extreme conservatives share more junk news than all other audiences put together.

The researchers found that 96 per cent of those in the Trump support category shared junk news on Twitter in the days leading up to the State of the Union. This group also shared more junk news than any other group combined. On Facebook, 91 per cent of the hard conservatives group shared junk news even more than members of the conspiracy group.

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