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Adversarial collaboration among fact-checkers: bipartisanship outweighs partisanship in preferences and trust towards news

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  • Lukumon, Gafari Abiodun

    (Universite Mohamed VI Polytechnic, Morocco)

  • Byrd, Nick

    (Geisinger College of Health Sciences)

  • Strickland, Brent

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Have politics and news become so polarized that people prefer co-partisan fact-checkers over bi-partisan fact-checkers? Or despite a polarized political climate, do people nevertheless still prefer bipartisan fact-checking? In this study, we investigated individuals' attitudes toward ideologically heterogeneous (i.e. politically mixed) vs. homogenous fact-checking groups. Across two pre-registered studies (N = 876), we investigated preferences (and motivations) for consulting such groups as well as trust in them. Left- and Right- leaning American participants exhibited a strong preference for bipartisan fact-checking groups, with the greatest preference for political diversity among left-leaning participants. Notably, both left leaning and right leaning participants trusted heterogeneous fact-checking groups as much as their own but expressed lower trust in the opposing political party. These studies suggest that even in a highly polarized political climate, people prefer a diversity of viewpoints to be included in the fact-checking process. This insight may offer a new perspective on overcoming partisan divides in information consumption.

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  • Lukumon, Gafari Abiodun & Byrd, Nick & Strickland, Brent, 2024. "Adversarial collaboration among fact-checkers: bipartisanship outweighs partisanship in preferences and trust towards news," OSF Preprints gp9w7_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:gp9w7_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/gp9w7_v1
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