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Study: Conservative, Older Twitter Users Most Likely To Spread Fake News
PlayA new study claims that "fake news" Twitter engagement during the 2016 presidential election was highly concentrated among a small fraction of users who tended to be politically engaged, older and more conservative.
Guest
David Lazer, a professor and computational social scientist at Northeastern University. He tweets @davidlazer.
This segment aired on January 24, 2019.
