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Saturday, February 10, 2018

The Oxford Study Saying Trump Supporters Share More Fake News Is Fake News And taxpayers paid for it

An Oxford University study being spread by mainstream news outlets that claims Trump supporters share the most fake news is itself fake news.

Researchers at the Computational Propaganda Project, who are the recipients of over $200,000 in taxpayer funding, spent "several years" developing its "junk news" list, which is actually full of the most popular conservative websites on the internet.

Websites included on the researchers' "watch list" of propaganda news outlets includes theWashington Free Beacon, the Daily Caller, National Review, and the Drudge Report, which is theseventh most highly visited media publication in the United States.

Contrary to the claim that conservatives are sharing the most fake news, the study proves nothing other than finding conservatives tend to share conservative media online.

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