Articles By
Jee Young Lee
People rely on their existing political beliefs to identify election misinformation
Sora Park, Jee Young Lee, Kieran McGuinness, Caroline Fisher and Janet Fulton
Rather than assuming that people are motivated to fact-check, we investigated the process that people go through when and if they encounter political misinformation. Using a digital diary method, we asked 38 participants to collect examples of political misinformation during Australia’s 2025 federal election and explain why they determined it to be misinformation (n = 254).