How a fake story about Angela Merkel led to a far-right cluster on Reddit
This is interesting as a work of network analysis, but I&#x27;m not sure how to connect this back to politics. It seems pretty clear to me whenever I browse &#x2F;r&#x2F;The_Donald that they&#x27;re actively uninterested in fact-checking. There are posts hating on the new Netflix TV series &quot;Dear White People&quot; where people ask questions like &quot;Do I even want to know what it&#x27;s about?&quot;. There was a highly-upvoted image about Pizzagate with a leaked Podesta email on the left and a UrbanDictionary screenshot on the right defining some word as a lewd sex act—from the fourth page of results. Anyone who&#x27;s ever been to UrbanDictionary knows that literally every word has a definition somewhere about it being a lewd sex act.<p>Are the majority of Trump (and Farage, and Petry, and so forth) voters similarly uninterested in actual facts? That seems unlikely to me, although certainly possible. I worry that the fringe of loud people on the internet isn&#x27;t actually connected in a meaningful way to voters, and so analyzing the fringe isn&#x27;t a good way to learn anything about the world at large, just about loud people on the internet.