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A new study finds that people over 65 and conservatives shared far more false information in 2016 on Facebook than others.

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Sharing false information on Facebook is old. The first major study to look at who is sharing links from debunked sites finds that not many people are doing it.

By SETH BORENSTEIN , AP Science Writer January 11, 2019