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Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter

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  1. Elena Llorca-Asensi & Alexander Sánchez Díaz & Maria-Elena Fabregat-Cabrera & Raúl Ruiz-Callado, 2021. "“Why Can’t We?” Disinformation and Right to Self-Determination. The Catalan Conflict on Twitter," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 10(10), pages 1-23, October.
  2. James N. Druckman & Donald P. Green & Shanto Iyengar, 2023. "Does Affective Polarization Contribute to Democratic Backsliding in America?," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 708(1), pages 137-163, July.
  3. Jacopo Marchetti & Antonio Mastrogiorgio, 2025. "Becoming fake: an evolutionary model of fake news," Mind & Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and Social Sciences, Springer;Fondazione Rosselli, vol. 24(2), pages 929-945, December.
  4. Gordon Pennycook & David G. Rand, 2022. "Nudging Social Media toward Accuracy," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 700(1), pages 152-164, March.
  5. Raúl Rodríguez-Ferrándiz, 2023. "An Overview of the Fake News Phenomenon: From Untruth-Driven to Post-Truth-Driven Approaches," Media and Communication, Cogitatio Press, vol. 11(2), pages 15-29.
  6. Maia Powell & Arnold D Kim & Paul E Smaldino, 2023. "Hashtags as signals of political identity: #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(6), pages 1-15, June.
  7. Myunghoon Kang & Chunho Park & Jisung Yoon & Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen, 2025. "Partisan attitudes and the motivation behind the spread of misleading information," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 12(1), pages 1-12, December.
  8. Mohsen Mosleh & David G. Rand, 2022. "Measuring exposure to misinformation from political elites on Twitter," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-9, December.
  9. Eugen Dimant, 2024. "Hate Trumps Love: The Impact of Political Polarization on Social Preferences," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 70(1), pages 1-31, January.
  10. François t'Serstevens & Roberto Cerina & Giulia Piccillo, 2024. "Mapping the Risk of Spreading Fake-News via Wisdom-of-the-Crowd & MrP," CESifo Working Paper Series 11138, CESifo.
  11. Adrian Kwek & Luke Peh & Josef Tan & Jin Xing Lee, 2023. "Distractions, analytical thinking and falling for fake news: A survey of psychological factors," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-12, December.
  12. Tiziana Assenza & Fabrice Collard & Patrick Fève & Stefanie Huber, 2024. "From Buzz to Bust: How Fake News Shapes the Business Cycle," Working Papers hal-04958375, HAL.
  13. Marta Serra-Garcia, 2026. "The Attention-Information Trade-Off," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 116(5), pages 1579-1610, May.
  14. Mason Youngblood & Joseph M. Stubbersfield & Olivier Morin & Ryan Glassman & Alberto Acerbi, 2023. "Negativity bias in the spread of voter fraud conspiracy theory tweets during the 2020 US election," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-11, December.
  15. Roberts Lyer, Kirsten & Saliba, Ilyas & Spannagel, Janika, 2023. "Hypotheses on Institutional Autonomy Decline," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, pages 177-193.
  16. Jana Lasser & Segun T. Aroyehun & Fabio Carrella & Almog Simchon & David Garcia & Stephan Lewandowsky, 2023. "From alternative conceptions of honesty to alternative facts in communications by US politicians," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 7(12), pages 2140-2151, December.
  17. Santosh Vijaykumar & Michael Craig & Ricardo J. Wray & Xiaoyu Liu & Rachel Mann & Kristofor McCarty & Nidhi Nagabhatla, 2026. "Identifying information voids during weather-related disasters: case studies from the 2024 Europe floods and Florida’s hurricane helene," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 122(6), pages 1-28, March.
  18. Gordon Pennycook & David G. Rand, 2022. "Accuracy prompts are a replicable and generalizable approach for reducing the spread of misinformation," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-12, December.
  19. Eugen Dimant, 2020. "Hate Trumps Love: The Impact of Political Polarization on Social Preferences," ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series 029, University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany.
  20. Zeng, Jing & Brennen, Scott Babwah, 2023. "Misinformation," Internet Policy Review: Journal on Internet Regulation, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin, vol. 12(4), pages 1-20.
  21. Henrich R. Greve & Hayagreeva Rao & Paul Vicinanza & Echo Yan Zhou, 2022. "Online Conspiracy Groups: Micro-Bloggers, Bots, and Coronavirus Conspiracy Talk on Twitter," American Sociological Review, , vol. 87(6), pages 919-949, December.
  22. Brian Knutson & Tiffany W Hsu & Michael Ko & Jeanne L Tsai, 2024. "News source bias and sentiment on social media," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(10), pages 1-17, October.
  23. Joshua A. Confer & Allison M. Champ & Dorsa Amir & Hanna Schleihauf & Jan M. Engelmann, 2025. "Group membership biases children’s evaluation of evidence," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 16(1), pages 1-13, December.
  24. Yasushi Asako & Yoshio Kamijo & Daiki Kishishita & Masayuki Odora, 2026. "Fighting Fake News with Peer Feedback: Theory and Experiment," Working Papers 2531, Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics.
  25. Çiğdem Bozdağ & Suncem Koçer, 2022. "Skeptical Inertia in the Face of Polarization: News Consumption and Misinformation in Turkey," Media and Communication, Cogitatio Press, vol. 10(2), pages 169-179.
  26. Jens Foerderer, 2023. "Should we trust web-scraped data?," Papers 2308.02231, arXiv.org.
  27. Steve Rathje & Jon Roozenbeek & Jay J. Bavel & Sander Linden, 2023. "Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information," Nature Human Behaviour, Nature, vol. 7(6), pages 892-903, June.
  28. Çiğdem Bozdağ & Suncem Koçer, 2022. "Skeptical Inertia in the Face of Polarization: News Consumption and Misinformation in Turkey," Media and Communication, Cogitatio Press, vol. 10(2), pages 169-179.
  29. Tom Buchanan & Rotem Perach & Deborah Husbands & Amber F Tout & Ekaterina Kostyuk & James Kempley & Laura Joyner, 2024. "Individual differences in sharing false political information on social media: Deliberate and accidental sharing, motivations and positive schizotypy," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(6), pages 1-37, June.
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