Liberals more susceptible to fake news than conservatives
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By LAURA HAZARD OWEN
MAY 5, 2017, 8:30 A.M.
The growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy is hard to keep up with. This weekly roundup offers the highlights of what you might have missed.
“Misinformation is currently predominantly a pathology of the left." A team of scholars from the Harvard Kennedy School and Northeastern University a report, “Combating Fake News: An Agenda for Research and Action,” this week, drawing on research presented at a February conference they hosted:
As a research community, we identified three courses of action that can be taken in the immediate future: involving more liberals in the discussion of misinformation in politics, collaborating more closely with journalists in order to make the truth “louder,” and developing multidisciplinary community-wide shared resources for conducting academic research on the presence and dissemination of misinformation on social media platforms.
As for fake news being a bigger problem on the left than on the right, the report cites a January paper in which economics professors Hunt Allcott of NYU and Matthew Gentzkow of Stanford found that, in the 2016 presidential election, “fake news was both widely shared and heavily tilted in favor of Hillary Clinton” and that “Republicans are overall more likely to correctly identify true versus false articles.”
“Bringing more liberals into the deliberation process about misinformation is an essential step in combating fake news and providing an unbiased scientific treatment to the research topic,” the Shorenstein report’s authors write.
At the same time, the authors note that “there is at least anecdotal evidence that when Democrats are in power, the right becomes increasingly susceptible to promoting and accepting fake news. This suggests that we may expect to witness a rise in right-wing-promulgated fake news over the next several years.” This point is echoed in a Nieman Reports article by Jestin Coler, the (reformed?) creator of the Denver Guardian and other fake news sites. He writes:
With the recent shift in the balance of power I see conservatives as being a prime target for anything negative about President Trump or his administration.
He also said he’s currently developing data that would allow him to look at fake news on Facebook without Facebook’s help. (Many studies about fake news on social media have focused on Twitter, because Facebook’s data isn’t open — but most fake news lives on Facebook, not Twitter.
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