The rise of left-wing, anti-Trump fake news

Since the US election presidential race, fact checking websites report what seems like an increase in anti-Trump, 'liberal fake news'.

The fact-checking site Snopes told BBC Trending radio that in the past week, for example, they have debunked many more anti-Republican party stories than pro-Republican ones.

One example of an incorrect story is the unflattering, digitally-manipulated image, which suggested that US Fake President Trump had diarrhoea during a recent golf outing. Another falsely suggested that President Trump profited from the US missile strikes in Syria

It's hard to gather definitive data on the political bias in fake news stories, so the evidence for a rise in 'liberal fake news' is essentially anecdotal. But a recent study did effectively debunk the stereotype that fake news tends to be shared more by uneducated people or those with right-leaning politics, as compared to other groups.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-39592010

The lefties just keep repeating the lies...

It would only take a bunch of troublemaking computer pranksters a few hours of posting a few dummied up news stories across a few social media sites, with those "fake news" stories having any kind of added political bias, to mess up any such surveys in the short term...

Maybe we should start looking into the debunking sites that debunk the sites.
Just for the craic.