Articles By
Dimitar Nikolov
Elections
Right and left, partisanship predicts (asymmetric) vulnerability to misinformation
Dimitar Nikolov, Alessandro Flammini and Filippo Menczer
We analyze the relationship between partisanship, echo chambers, and vulnerability to online misinformation by studying news sharing behavior on Twitter. While our results confirm prior findings that online misinformation sharing is strongly correlated with right-leaning partisanship, we also uncover a similar, though weaker, trend among left-leaning users.