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> If you paid any attention to the 2016 US election

Sorry mate, I did not.

> at some real academic studies on this matter

Do you think Simmons Research, LLC are real academics and this is unlike Gallup, Inc.? Neither of them is from academia, both are commercial entities selling some B2B services.

I’ve just tried to but I wasn’t able to find academic sources on fake news, but here’s tangential research. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1146 Hint: sci-hub.tw Given user base of social networks in modern world, this is not reassuring at all.

Also this http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6380/1094.full but that’s just an overview article with little actual data.

> Notice any changes?

Some improvement indeed, but still, 55% people said they trust “not very much” or “none at all“. Don’t you think the number is a bit too high?




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