Fig. 2: Exposure to elite misinformation is associated with sharing news from lower-quality outlets and with conservative estimated ideology.

Shown is the relationship between users’ misinformation-exposure scores and (a) the quality of the news outlets they shared content from, as rated by professional fact-checkers²¹, (b) the quality of the news outlets they shared content from, as rated by layperson crowds²¹, and (c) estimated political ideology, based on the ideology of the accounts they follow¹⁰. Small dots in the background show individual observations; large dots show the average value across bins of size 0.1, with size of dots proportional to the number of observations in each bin. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.