Extended Data Fig. 3: Who is most susceptible to unreliable information when searching for more information? (Study 5).
From: Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity
Panels a through b present the effect of searching online on rating a false/misleading article as true and 95 percent confidence intervals during Study 5 as a unit of the standard deviation of the dependent variable. Marginal effects are subset by the quality of news returned in their search engine results (top 50% and bottom 50% of average source quality of news returned). Panel a presents the effect of being encouraged to search online among those ideologically congruent with the ideological perspective of the item of misinformation they are evaluating (N = 562, N = 320), while panel b presents the search effect of being encouraged to search online among those ideologically incongruent with the ideological perspective of the item of misinformation they are evaluating (N = 790, N = 428). All effects are estimated using ordinary least squares with article fixed effects and standard errors clustered at the individual and article level.
