Brendan Nyhan and his colleagues found that although some US voters consumed a lot of news from dubious websites, these people were in the minority. On average, only 3 per cent of the articles that people viewed were published by websites peddling false stories. They later published a follow-up analysis of the 2018 midterms; the results suggested that dodgy news had an even smaller reach during this election. In the UK, there was also little evidence of Russian content dominating conversations on Twitter or YouTube in the run up to the eu referendum.[101]
