Rebecca Dallet trounced Michael Screnock for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, “shrinking the court’s conservative majority and giving Democrats a jolt of energy heading into the fall election,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

“It marked the first time in 23 years that a liberal candidate who wasn’t an incumbent won a seat on the high court.”

A new Ohio State University study finds that fake news probably played a significant role in depressing Hillary Clinton’s support on Election Day.

The study suggests that about 4% of Barack Obama’s 2012 supporters were dissuaded from voting for Clinton in 2016 by belief in fake news stories.

“Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has boasted often that it made better use of Facebook’s advertising tools than Hillary Clinton’s campaign did. An internal Facebook white paper, published days after the election, shows the company’s data scientists agree,” Bloomberg reports.

“The paper, obtained by Bloomberg and discussed here for the first time, describes in granular detail the difference between Trump’s campaign, which was focused on finding new donors, and Clinton’s campaign, which concentrated on ensuring Clinton had broad appeal. The data scientist says 84% of Trump’s budget asked people on Facebook to take an action, like donating, compared with 56% of Clinton’s.”

Also interesting: “Trump ran 5.9 million different versions of ads during the presidential campaign and rapidly tested them to spread those that generated the most Facebook engagement… Clinton ran 66,000 different kinds of ads in the same period.”