Asymmetric Accountability: Affective Polarization and Public Responses to Political Disinformation

• In Event: Public Responses to Political Content on Social Media

Brief Overview

This study tests how reputational costs shape elites’ use of disinformation. Using a U.S. survey experiment (N=4,207), results show affective partisanship reduces penalties for falsehoods, linking polarization to tolerance of disinformation.

Author

• Hanna Sistek, Purdue University