I totally disagree that this study can show this. "Internet non-user" is not a meaningful comparison category for 2016. The whole ecology of information has shifted and everyone is affected—even if you never touched a computer. Hard to measure, sure, but this isn't that measure.
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Maybe 10% of the US population is not on the internet (the authors didn't have a reliable, recent measure so they use an estimate—I can't find a data table for the estimate) and the idea they are totally isolated from info ecology shift and a good comparison group doesn't hold./
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I agree with your skepticism of any isolation from net ecology, but I also think it's fair to say that television (even if regurgitating net info) was an even better friend of Trump because it amplified all this Trump news/info + spewed its routine oversimplified "wisdom" on them
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Fox News and NY Times coverage of the election are more to blame than Russians sharing racist memes on Facebook. We pick on Facebook because it's new and we believe it can be changed while everyone just accepts the propaganda & reality distortion coming from Fox News
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Fox News and NYT are absolutely affected by the Internet and Facebook! Isolating cable news from "internet" and assuming it's a separate, unaffected lane just doesn't hold. Also the Internet is much more than "Russians sharing racist memes on FB." Contrarianism needs grounding.
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