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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Right, agreed. But there has been a growing conventional wisdom that attributes a Trump victory to Internet-specific things like memes and clickbait fake news, and that’s not really accurate.
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Shift in the information ecology due to digital technologies is absolutely a part of the story. Like any historical phenomenon worth discussing, it's not mono-causal. Whatever the complexity, I don't see how the tiny internet non-users as a comparison group answers this question.
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