Angelucci, Charles; Gutmann, Michel; Prat, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
election, the model shows that partisan congruence's impact on news discernment is substantially amplified during election … periods. Outside an election, when faced with a true and a fake news story and asked to select the most likely true story, an … individual is 4% more likely to choose the true story if it favors their party; in the days prior to the election, this increases …