B
Evidence Grade B
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64%
64% -- survey agreement rate for US adults (2016)
64% of adults (two out of three) in a Pew Research Center survey felt that fabricated news stories cause a great deal of confusion about basic facts of current issues and events.
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64%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2016
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Pew Research Center
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Tier B
http://www.bangthetable.com/fake-news-threat-public-participation/ ↗
Source Article
Fake News: Is It A Threat To Public Participation? - Bang The Table
Fake news articles spread across the internet like a bacterial infection. And like an infection they take hold and thrive in the darkest of places. One of the biggest publishers of fake news in the US bases his entire business model on the fact that fake news flourishes by feeding into preexisting c…
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Pew Research Center
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Pew Research Center survey on fabricated news stories, as cited by Bang the Table
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US adults: 64% survey agreement rate. Source: Pew Research Center (2016). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/pew-fake-news-confusion-64
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