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I did, and you just say no. Trump's a Russian agent, Trump pissed on hookers in Russia because he hates Obama, Trump has dementia, Trump beat Melania and had the secret service cover it up with a fake surgery, Senior editor from fucking newsweek said Trump was in a mental hospital, here's a list of 16 fake hate crimes just from the election year, some of which were covered by CNN and Buzzfeed, not just posted on some rando's facebook wall or on Alex Jones.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/31/2016-the-year-of-the-hoax-hate-crime/
You think this is a bunch of republicans?
Simply stunning that you think it's people on the right who think Bush orchestrated 9/11. Yeah, those damn right wingers blaming republicans to cover for Muslim terrorists.
Here's another article from the left wing Atlantic about the left falling for fake news with examples, since you think the BBC article must be lying since you don't want to believe it. It says 20% of the information from popular left wing facebook pages Occupy Democrats, The Other 98%, and Addicting Info was fake. Occupy Democrats alone has 7.4 million followers.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/liberal-fever-swamps/530736/
Selective quoting.
From your Atlantic article:
An analysis by BuzzFeed during the frenzied final weeks of the 2016 election found that nearly 20 percent of the stories posted by three extremely popular liberal Facebook pages—Occupy Democrats, The Other 98%, and Addicting Info—were either partly or mostly false. While conservative Facebook pages were even more likely to spread false stories, BuzzFeed’s finding should serve as a red flag for the kind of the news that millions of rank-and-file Democrats are getting on the world’s largest social-media platform.
The Trade Desk study referred to by the BBC selected two fake news stories, one each with a right and left slant, and looked at how often it was shared.
Oxford, the Buzzfeed analysis and several other studies analysed how much fake news was actually shared, who shared it and their patterns of consumption.
It's very damning.