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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Replying to @zeynep @WillOremus
I turned on CNN yesterday & it was all about Trump's tweets. Fox News clearly shifted in content in 2016 to competewith Breitbart which has been top performer on Facebook during most of 2016. There's no "non-internet user" (already a tiny category) that is isolated from all this.
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Replying to @zeynep @WillOremus
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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