Analysis of fake news stories in the immediate lead up to the 2016 US election demonstrate that 61% of stories directed at the Campaigns painted the Clinton Campaign in a negative light. 405 fake news stories were directly targeted at the two Campaigns from 27 October to 7 November. The slider for the visualization shows the day-by-day break down of these stories. Hovering the mouse over the chart will show the individual values. Hovering the mouse over the legend shows the day-to-day pattern by category. The 27 October was the significant day, with the most stories negatively directed at both Campaigns.
Visualization adapted from Kygryte's Nightingale Rose Chart. Analysis is based on text and metadata scraped from 244 websites by Megan Risdal that was tagged as "BS" by the BS Detector Chrome Extension.