Analysis

Preliminary analysis can be found on a Jupyter Notebook at Github.

It's clear that the subreddits r/ConservativesOnly and r/Patriot911 have the highest amounts of misinformation submissions compared to the rest of the subreddits we analyzed.

As expected, Subreddits that lean more towards politics political tend to have a higher amount of misinformation.

Interestingly, the despite whether subreddits have a high proportion of misinformation or not, upvote ratios tend to be high across the board. This seems to indicate the Subreddits tend to be ideologically homogeneous.

The figure at the bottom (# of MisInfo-Posters per Subreddit) shows the number of known users who post misinformation per Subreddit. This provides more insight into the relationships between Subreddits, because a Subreddit can be seen as more integral the misinformation "network" given the more misinfo-posters it has.


Exploratory Data Analysis