Although originally published in 2018, this article is still relevant.
The Atlantic looks at the impact of fake news
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There's another Blogger at WaitButWhy who is just publishing his info on this right now and confirms it is still going on - and getting worse. He's even showing that just doing the research on it by itself actually changed the feed he was getting to highlight the fake news even MORE. Long read, but VERY well researched and written.
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