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Elderly, Conservatives Shared More Facebook Fakery in 2016

WASHINGTON — Sharing false information on Facebook is old. People over 65 and ultra conservatives shared about seven times more fake information masquerading as news on the social media site than younger adults, moderates and super liberals during the 2016 election season, a new study finds. The first major study...

Trump Says Media Is ‘Enemy’ After Shooting, Bomb Plot

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on the news media Monday following a week of election-season violence, arguing that "fraudulent" reporting was contributing to anger in the country and declaring that the press was the "true Enemy of the People." Trump tweeted: "There is great anger in our...

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