America’s growing fake news problem, in one chart

Posted on AllSides December 30th, 2020
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America’s fake news problem is getting worse, not better.

According to an analysis released by NewsGuard and first reported by Axios’s Sara Fischer on Tuesday, websites that provide “unreliable news” increased their share of social media interactions this year. In 2019, 8 percent of engagement with the 100 top-performing news sources on social media was dubious. In 2020, that number more than doubled to 17 percent.

NewsGuard, which rates news websites according to reliability, found that people are engaging in a lot more news this year than they were last...

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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/12/22/22195488/fake-news-social-media-2020

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