Who shared fake news sources?
Among those who shared any political content
on Twitter during the election, fewer than 5% of
people on the left or in the center ever shared any
fake news content, yet 11 and 21% of people on
the right and extreme right did
Grinberg, N., Joseph, K., Friedland, L., Swire-Thompson, B., & Lazer, D. (2019). Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Science, 363(6425), 374–378. doi:10.1126/science.aau2706