The Hoaxes, Fake News and Misinformation We Saw on Election Day

Fake stories and memes that crop up during live news events have been a problem on social media for years, but a wild election season has highlighted the news media’s slow response to them.

Article by Katie Rogers

On Election Day, we asked our readers to send in some examples of what they were seeing. Here’s what we heard.

Hoaxes often gurgle up from the bowels of Facebook, as shares from sites that claim to mix satire with the truth, like The Rightists, or sites that don’t seem to exist for any particular reason but to fool people, like one called The Denver Guardian.

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