Just how partisan is Facebook's fake news? We tested it; PC World, 11/21/16

Mark Hachman, PCWorld; Just how partisan is Facebook's fake news? We tested it:

"We decided to test who’s seeing this partisan fake news, who’s supplying it, and just how obvious it is.

We began our investigation last Monday, as the fake-news controversy gained momentum—and Facebook and Google began blocking sites that traffic in disinformation from their respective advertising networks. We set up two Facebook accounts, one favoring Hillary Clinton, and the other supporting Trump, then let Facebook recommend a series of news pages. In effect, we were asking Facebook to be our news service.

Then we sat back and watched the news roll in. We looked closely at each post to determine whether it was real news, fake news, or something in between."