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'Hyperpartisan' Facebook Pages Muddying Political Waters

  • BuzzFeed, Friday, October 21, 2016 11 AM
Based on its analysis of three “hyperpartisan” right-wing Facebook pages, Buzzfeed found that 38% of all posts were either a mixture of true and false or mostly false -- compared to 19% of posts from three hyperpartisan left-wing pages that were either a mixture of true and false or mostly false. “These pages … represent a new and powerful force in American politics and society,” Buzzfeed writes. “Many have quickly grown to be as large as -- and often much larger than -- mainstream political news pages.”

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