Susceptibility to Fake News in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia

• In Event: Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Persuasion in Autocracies

Brief Overview

I examine how citizens in authoritarian Russia make judgments about the veracity of news stories. In general, citizens are quite skeptical about the news; there are also large political biases in the evaluations of politically slanted stories.

Author

• Anton Shirikov, University of Wisconsin-Madison