• Home >
  • news >
  • Fake News is Widely Shared as the Real Thing

    27 March 2017

    Social media app

    Our research into the 2016 US election was covered by the Financial Times.

    Nearly a quarter of web content shared on Twitter by users in the battleground state of Michigan during the final days of last year’s US election campaign was so-called fake news, according to a University of Oxford study. Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) also determined that these users shared approximately as many fake news items as “professional news” over the same period.

    “I think it’s safe to say that’s a bad thing for public life and the political conversation in [Michigan],” said Professor Philip Howard, principal investigator with the Project on Computational Propaganda at OII.

    Read more here.

    Related Content

    DemTech
    Privacy Overview

    This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.