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Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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No. Fucking. Shit
Water is wet.
Today on: Why does reality have woke leftist bias?
Is this 2016?
We already lost what we call information
Let's be honest. No one, outside of acedemics, really cared about information and the right is happily manufacturing their own.
If you can write something online and the only measure of it's accuracy is how much people agree with it then there is no limit to the stupid shit people will say is fact.
I know there are right wingers waiting in the wings to turn this all on me but believe me when I say this, you would be lost if it weren't for people better than yourself building what we have. The fact that you stand on top of it now and declare yourself the successors of logic and reason is what will make all of this collapse. Your world view is shit and you won't stop until hate unfurls what we've been desperately trying to preserve.
Bad title, because
The research draws on every tweet posted between 2017 and 2022 by every member of parliament with a Twitter (now X) account in 26 countries: 17 EU members including Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, but also the UK, US and Australia.
Their dataset is 100% from Twitter.
So the actual result of this study could be that there are more far-right populists in Twitter. A highly improbable conclusion, I know.
"More likely" would imply frequency of false information to overall tweets. Which would be split by political leaning already. The numbers of each side wouldn't matter much in that case
Not really, you take all those politicians, divide them in categories (left, center, right, populist or not) and check the % of lies per tweets for each category.
I too have watched republican debates.
The left-right vs factual score is quite interesting
So the title should say that right wing and centrist sources are less factual than left wing ones.
I'm not sure whether that difference is statistically significant though since there are only a couple of left sources included.
I scanned the study and couldn't figure out what a negative factual score means, it only talks about factuality being rated from 0 to 1.
Figure 1. Association between factuality score adjusted by country mean, parties’ left-right ideology (right), and populism (middle), and government participation (left) with 95% confidence intervals.
I think this means that the y axis represents the deviation from the mean score, not the actual 'factuality score'.
Ah! In my scanning I missed the "adjusted by country mean" but yeah, you're totally correct.
BREAKING: Liberal media is closer to mean.
--Fox News
What's the fit?
A more important issue is not "fake news" but rather highly biased and tightly framed news that purports to be neutral. The hegemonic narrative is actually extremely biased but never criticized. This is completely normalized and widespread in the imperial core, especially among both flavors of politicians.
What? Being on the right shows you lack basic critical thinking skills or are conning people?
"Study finds that water is wet."
But i thought both were as bad as the other one.
I always like the "they're both the same" people who say things like, "they would oppress queer people too if they had the power!" And then you point out that they did have the power and didn't do anything near to the level the right does and they just shoo you away like a fly.
Yes, but Hitler was a communist so it really is the same, or something!
Fake news spread includes "both sides are the same"
So far right populists, against far left populusts? No, against "left".
I bet far right populists lie more than any non-populists.
Left will rather lose to fascists than do populism.
Cool....coolcoolcool....so, now put your time and effort into REPORTING WHAT WE DONT ALL ALREADY KNOW, FFS.
That's not how science & research works.
We test the things we think we know and publish our findings.
Well this has been previously tested.
That's only true in a general sense. Regardless a key component of "doing science" is to reproduce the results of others.