A new study from Stanford and New York University shows fake news did not change the results of the 2016 presidential election, while far more false stories favored eventual President Donald Trump than his challenger, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
"Our data suggest that social media were not the most important source of election news and even the most widely circulated news stories were seen by only a small fraction of Americans," lead researchers Hunt Allcott and Matthew Gentzkow wrote in the study, reports The Hill.
At any rate, only about eight percent of voters read the fake news stories, and even those who did could not recall what they'd read or believed what they'd seen.
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