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People who consuming politically biased news online are more likely to endorse falsehoods than those who don't, even when they know that scientists, journalists, fact checkers, and other sources of evidence disagree with those conclusions.
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Politically bias news sites don't have to hide or distort evidence to promote falsehoods. People who get their news from these sites often endorse claims that are inconsistent with the evidence, even when they know what the evidence says.
R. Kelly Garrett
Ohio State University
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This page is a summary of: Driving a Wedge Between Evidence and Beliefs: How Online Ideological News Exposure Promotes Political Misperceptions, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, August 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/jcc4.12164.
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