Citation

Right and left, partisanship predicts (asymmetric) vulnerability to misinformation

Author:
Nikolov, Dimitar; Flammini, Alessandro; Menczer, Filippo
Publication:
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
Year:
2021

We analyze the relationship between partisanship, echo chambers, and vulnerability to online misinformation by studying news sharing behavior on Twitter. While our results confirm prior findings that online misinformation sharing is strongly correlated with right-leaning partisanship, we also uncover a similar, though weaker, trend among left-leaning users. Because of the correlation between a user’s partisanship […]