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June 6, 2026Open Access

An examination of partisan disinformation sharing behavior on social media

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ZXZedan Xu

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Overview

Randomized trial reveals predictors of partisan disinformation sharing behavior using an online survey.

Key Points

  • This research aims to identify the behavioral predictors of partisan disinformation sharing on social media.
  • Developed an ordinal logistic regression model using survey data from 500 U.S. adults.
  • Conducted an online survey experiment, with respondents randomly assigned to four groups.
  • Analyzed effects of factors like partisanship, political literacy, and social media engagement on disinformation sharing.
  • Partisans are more likely to share disinformation favorable to their party; Democrats favor Democrat-supporting disinformation.
  • Political knowledge is negatively associated with disinformation sharing: more knowledge means less sharing.
  • Males show a higher likelihood of sharing partisan disinformation compared to females, and both age and social media engagement predict increased sharing.

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Zedan Xu (2022) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a23baa771a5da9775e765edhttps://doi.org/10.6082/f5v2p-s1564
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