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Selective Exposure to misinformation : Evidence from the consumption of fake news during the2016 presidential campaignAndrew GuessDepartment of PoliticsPrinceton UniversityBrendan NyhanDepartment of GovernmentDartmouth CollegeJason ReiflerDepartment of PoliticsUniversity of ExeterJanuary 9, 2018 AbstractThough some warnings about online echo chambers have been hyperbolic, tenden-cies toward Selective Exposure to politically congenial content are likely to extendto misinformation and to be exacerbated by social media platforms. We test thisprediction using data on the factually dubious articles known as fake news. Usingunique data combining survey responses with individual-level web tra c histories,we estimate that approximately 1 in 4 Americans visited a fake news website fromOctober 7-November 14, 2016.
Selective Exposure to Misinformation: Evidence from the consumption of fake news during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign Andrew Guess Department of Politics
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