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Right-wing websites spread 'junk news' - robkelk - 09-06-2018
According to researchers at the University of Oxford (which, at a millennium old, is as conservative an organization as one can find), right-wing websites have swamped Sweden with 'junk news' ahead of the upcoming Swedish election on Sunday.
Quote:One in three news articles shared online about the upcoming Swedish election comes from websites publishing deliberately misleading information, most with a right-wing focus on immigration and Islam, Oxford University researchers say.