Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study
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Water is wet.
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No. Fucking. Shit
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But i thought both were as bad as the other one.
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Why does reality have woke leftist bias?
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The left-right vs factual score is quite interesting
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What? Being on the right shows you lack basic critical thinking skills or are conning people?
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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.
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Yes, but Hitler was a communist so it really is the same, or something!
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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.
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*patpat*
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Cool....coolcoolcool....so, now put your time and effort into REPORTING WHAT WE DONT ALL ALREADY KNOW, FFS.
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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.
So the actual result of this study could be that there are more far-right populists in Twitter. A highly improbable conclusion, I know.
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So the title should say that right wing and centrist sources are less factual than left wing ones.
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That's not how science & research works.
We test the things we think we know and publish our findings.
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"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
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Well this has been previously tested.
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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'.
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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.
