Fig. 2: Conservatives shared more false claims than liberals.
From: Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions
a,b, Distribution of the number of Twitter posts containing links to articles rated as false by professional fact-checkers (a), or rated as inaccurate by politically balanced groups of survey respondents (b), made by Twitter users estimated to be liberal versus conservative when analysing data from ref. 53. The y axis shows log10(count of primary posts containing the URL + 1). For details, see the Methods and Supplementary Information section 3.6. c,d, Analysis of sharing intentions for COVID-19 claims from a survey conducted in 16 countries, from ref. 37. Shown is the correlation between self-reported endorsement of conservative economic principles and fraction of shared content that was rated false by fact-checkers (c) or inaccurate by layperson crowds (d). Overall effect was calculated using random effects meta-analysis. Error bars indicate 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). For details, see the Methods and Supplementary Information section 3.7.
