OXFORD U.K. (WKZO AM/FM) — While the House Investigation into Russian influence on last fall’s election remains in disarray, the U.S. Senate is ready to begin taking testimony today.
This might be of interest to the committee.
Oxford University propaganda expert Samuel Woolley’s study of over 100-thousand social media comments in Michigan in the days just before the election shows fake news had a huge influence.
He says they noted as many comments about fake news as real new in the Michigan data, but because the fake new was more sensational, it may have been more engaging.
Senate Investigation Co-chair Mark Warner says they now have evidence that Russia paid 1,000 hackers to create fake news favoring Trump.
Trump won Michigan’s 16 Electoral College votes by the slimmest margin in History.
