Michael Schwalbe
mschwalbe.bsky.social
Michael Schwalbe
@mschwalbe.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University
In case it's helpful, here is the figure from the paper. The findings are a bit nuanced, but the high-level takeaway is that Trump supporters exhibited greater one-sided news consumption and a stronger "concordance-over-truth" bias for sharing the news.
February 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
(5/7) One of the top predictors of this bias was the objectivity illusion, or the belief in the objectivity and lack of bias of one’s political side relative to the other.

Those who believed their side was the least biased and most objective were, ironically, the most biased and least objective.
February 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
(2/7) Attesting to the robustness of this effect, participants were more likely to believe even our most outlandish fake headlines (Level 4) that were aligned with their political views than they were to believe true headlines that were not.
February 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Let’s teach people to question not just the news, but also their minds.

Our paper on #misinformation in JEP:G finds people were more influenced by news’ political alignment than by its truth—a “concordance-over-truth bias” driven more by resistance to truth than susceptibility to falsehood. 🧵1/7
February 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM