Originally Posted by MrBaldBastard

Trump supporters and extreme right 'share widest range of junk news' | University of Oxford

Professor Phil Howard, director of the Computational Propaganda Project, said: 'There is an upside to all of this. It appears that only one part of the political spectrum ? the far right ? is really the target for extremist, sensational and conspiratorial content. Over social media, moderates and centrists tend not to be as susceptible.