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Social Media & Fake News in the 2016 Election

Online Appendix: Social Media And Fake News In The 2016 Election

From Snopes, we scraped all stories dated between August 1st and November 7th, 2016 from www.snopes.com/tag/donald-trump/ and www.snopes.com/tag/hillary-clinton/. From PolitiFact, we scraped all stories dated between August 1st and November 7th, 2016 from www.politifact.com/trutho-meter/elections/2016/president-united-states/. Most of these stories are fact checks of statements made by presidential candidates, which we drop, but some are fake news headlines. We use fake news headlines that PolitiFact rated as ”Pants on Fire” or ”False.”

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