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An analysis of 30 million news media-based twitter stories relating to the American elections that pitted Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump indicates that nearly 10 million of the Twitter feeds were based on fake news.
These included images of Hillary meeting a "cartel of paedophiles" who apparently were running Washington DC and stories about Trump's infamous "golden showers" in Moscow. For such a literate and presumably informed country, it is shocking that many citizens swallowed the fake news stories and made electoral decisions based on the news.
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