Presented By: Communication and Media
Communication and Media Speaker Series
Professor Brendan Nyhan "Fake News in the 2016 Election"
The factually dubious for-profit articles known as “fake news” were read and shared by millions of people during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, but little is known scientifically about who read fake news, the mechanisms by which it was disseminated, and the extent to which fact-checks reached fake news consumers. In this study, we use behavioral data to better understand the prevalence and spread of “fake news.”
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