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Study: Conservatives more likely to believe Fake News (1 Viewer)

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Conservatives more likely to believe false news, another study finds | CNN

Political conservatives are more likely to believe untrue news reports than liberals are, researchers reported Wednesday.
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The small but intensive study, conducted by communications specialists Kelly Garrett and Robert Bond at Ohio State University, shows more engaging but false stories tended to support beliefs held by conservatives, while viral news stories that were also true tended to support beliefs held by liberals.
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"The proof is in the pudding"
 
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DataPoint said:
Your question demonstrates how far you are in the bog of misfit fake newsters.
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You are avoiding answering my question: what is the objective definition of fake news?
Why?
If one is to identify an evil, one should be able to define what that evil is.
 
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Sagittarius83 said:
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You are avoiding answering my question: what is the objective definition of fake news?
Why?
If one is to identify an evil, one should be able to define what that evil is.
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It's your question, so you answer it. You can't, so let's move on.
 
RetiredUSN said:

www.bloomberg.com

Conspiracy Theories Find Audience in Democrats, Republicans

Democrats and Republicans alike are falling prey to misinformation as conspiracy theories thrive across the U.S. in the weeks leading up to the presidential election, a new survey found.
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Look at the numbers per party. No, it is not alike. GOP are far more likely to fall prey to woo woo stuff.
 
Some on the Board need to do some reading.

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    Conservatives are more likely than liberals to endorse conspiracy theories. Many are highly knowledgeable about politics and have little trust in institutions, a new study finds. The issue: President Barack Obama was not born in the United States, goes one common conspiracy theory. Another: George W. Bush knew in advance about the 9/11 attacks and let them happen.

  2. Fake news is fooling more conservatives than liberals. Why ...​

    www.economist.com › international › 2020/06/03
    Supporters of the Dutch right-populist Freedom Party and the Forum for Democracy (F v D) are 40% more likely than backers of the far-left Socialist Party to say covid-19 is a biological weapon....

  3. Conspiracy theories aren’t just for conservatives - The ...​

    www.washingtonpost.com › news › monkey-cage
    On balance, partisanship may influence which conspiracy theories we see, but not how often we are likely to see them. Neither liberals nor conservatives are more credulous or crazy. If both sides...

  4. Conservatives' propensity toward conspiracy thinking can be ...​

    www.psypost.org › 2020 › 11
    “The fact that “conspiracy theories are not just for conservatives” (Moore et al., 2014) does not mean that conspiracies are endorsed at the same scale or level of intensity by liberals and conservatives nor that conspiracy theories on the left and right are equally harmful, fallacious, or driven by paranoid ideation,” van der Linden and team say.

  5. Conspiracy Theorists Might Actually Know More About Politics ...​

    www.huffpost.com › entry › conspiracy-theorists
    It could be that conservatives were simply more motivated to believe conspiracy theories in 2012 and 2013 than liberals were -- since Obama, a Democrat, was in the White House at the time. Another explanation could be that the specific theories the researchers asked about -- death panels, Hurricane Katrina, Obama's birthplace and so on -- were more polarizing for conservatives than for liberals.

  6. Here's How Republicans and Democrats Differ on Conspiracy ...​

    www.insider.com › how-republicans-and-democrats
    More than 22% of those polled who believe in chemtrails — the theory that the clouds of condensation behind airplanes contain chemical agents meant to control the public — identified as liberal to some degree, while only 17% of people who identified as conservative were chemtrail truthers.
 
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