Among those who shared any political content on Twitter during the election, fewer than 5% of people on the left or in the center ever shared any fake news content, yet 11 and 21% of people on the right and extreme right did
Grinberg, N., Joseph, K., Friedland, L., Swire-Thompson, B., & Lazer, D. (2019). Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Science, 363(6425), 374–378. doi:10.1126/science.aau2706
Who is determining what is and isn’t fake news?
I’d check the paper, but it’s paywalled
That’s what sci-hub is for https://sci-hub.scrongyao.com/10.1126/science.aau2706