A study done at London’s Oxford University took a look at election-related posts on social media Goliath Twitter and found that a big chunk of campaign-related news shared in Michigan was of the fake news variety.
Fake news accounted for a quarter of the campaign-related links shared, equal to and often exceeding the links shared from legitimate news sources.
The Oxford study looked at Michigan because it was a battleground state that unexpectedly voted Republican - albeit by a narrow margin - for the first time since President Ronald Reagan was in office.