Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study
Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study
Amplifying misinformation is now part of radical right strategy, says Dutch study of tweets by MPs in 26 countries
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The left-right vs factual score is quite interesting
So the title should say that right wing and centrist sources are less factual than left wing ones.
I'm not sure whether that difference is statistically significant though since there are only a couple of left sources included.
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.
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'.
Ah! In my scanning I missed the "adjusted by country mean" but yeah, you're totally correct.
BREAKING: Liberal media is closer to mean.
--Fox News