Democrats Vote To Enhance Med Care for Illegals Now, Vote Down Vets Waiting 10 Years for Same Service
Trump’s grandfather was a pimp and tax evader; his father a member of the KKK
Shocking stuff. Depending on your political views, reading one of these headlines probably caused a jolt of adrenaline, the self-righteous “I told you so”. The other may have elicited an eye-roll and an instinctive rush to Snopes.com.
These are two of the most widely shared “fake news” political articles on Facebook of 2019, based on a study by the activist non-profit Avaaz. The reach of these specific headlines was broad. The first headline (about “Med care”, “Illegals”, and Vets) was estimated to have been viewed more than eight million times. The second (alleging that Trump’s grandfather was a criminal and his father a Klansman) came in first place, with a whopping 29 million estimated views, showing yet again that no one steals the headlines quite like Donald Trump. All together, the top 100 most widely shared headlines were estimated to have been viewed more than 158 million times.
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