Study Confirms Conservatives Are Easily Tricked Into Believing Fake News

Researchers at Ohio State University have concluded an intensive study to determine which groups are more likely to be duped by false news articles, and to no one's surprise, conservatives are the ones who will apparently believe anything. Part of the reason is because nearly 90% of the viral fake news stories of the past few years have had a conservative bias (espousing conservative viewpoints.) Farron Cousins discusses the new study.

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A new intensive study out of the Ohio state university shows that conservatives are far more likely to believe fake news

Than liberals.

Now this comes as a surprise to absolutely no one because this study actually builds upon other studies that shows conservatives are more likely to believe in spread fake news,

Then liberals. But this one over there span

Of six months, January through June

Of 2019, examined 5,000

Social media posts per

Month interviewed, you know, uh, got the data from willing participants. And they found that out of these 5,000 stories per month, the most viral ones were in fact

Filled with conservative misinformation. While those that had a liberal bias actually tended to be factually accurate stories. However, there was about a 90% to 10%

Bias in these stories,

90%, roughly conservative, 10%

Liberal.

And this of course goes along with other studies that have shown that the majority of fake news being spread on social media, not believing it or not just how much it's spread. The vast majority of it is conservative.

So this study shows the not only are they spreading it, but

They, I actually believe it. The study also says, this is, this is crazy. They were less likely to believe actually accurate stories, conservatives work. So not only does it show that yes, they believe the fake stuff, but they think the real stuff is the fake stuff. And the fake stuff is the real stuff. And that is a Testament to how powerful misinformation and fake news is on the conservative side. I mean, it is essentially

Vital to the survival

Of the Republican party here in the United States, keeping

People stupid and preying on the gullible. Now, the researchers

Who conducted this study don't want me to call conservatives gullible. They didn't reach out to me specifically, but they did say, they said, it's tempting to try and read this as evidence that conservatives are more biased or somehow psychologically predisposed to misperceptions. We can't say that. Okay. You can't say that, but I'm going to say that because that is what this data is telling us. It's telling us that conservatives are gullible conservatives don't bother fact checking and conservatives will believe anything that comes out of the mouth or the website of a, another conservative. The researchers also bring up. They don't know how to combat that. Well, and unfortunately, I'm with you on that. When you look at the conservative propaganda machine in the United States today, there is no other propaganda that has as much of a reach and as much impact as that coming from these conservative institutions. And I'm talking about all of them, whether it's Charlie Kirk's group, whether it's the heritage foundation, the Federalist society, Ben Shapiro, Dan Bongino, Fox news Newsmax, one America, daily wire, daily caller, daily idiot, whatever it

Is, they've got the lockdown

And they have a well-financed machine behind them because if they're not taking corporate money like Charlie Kirk is, and all these other heritage foundation, Federalist society groups, then they're making enough on their own like Ben Shapiro. Uh, last I checked, I think Ben Shapiro is a couple million YouTube subscribers that dude set. He doesn't need outside money because he has enough to keep this thing going forever. Meanwhile, those of us over here on the left, you know, we're the victims of YouTube algorithms,

Algorithm shifts

That punish our channels. Don't push our videos, subscribers don't get notifications, things like that. It's a mess. We don't have any well-financed backer. That's funding, all these little things on the left. I know conservatives like to think George Soros pays for everything, but let me tell you I've been involved in a lot of liberal groups. A lot of them have asked George Soros for money and every time he said no,

So no, he is not this big

Omnipotent funder of everything on the left. We're all essentially doing it on our

Own. And we're fighting the

Conservative propaganda machine is as much as we can,

But it's still not enough. And this study is just further proof of that.