Populisti di estrema destra molto più probabili rispetto alla sinistra per diffondere notizie false-Studia
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/far-right-mps-fake-news-misinformation-left-study
di eza137
Populisti di estrema destra molto più probabili rispetto alla sinistra per diffondere notizie false-Studia
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/far-right-mps-fake-news-misinformation-left-study
di eza137
31 commenti
Given how fucking crazy the right is you don’t even need fake news – but people don’t give a fuck anyway.
Kanye sells Swastika t-shirts while Musk let’s 19 year old crypto bro’s run ChatGPT through the treasury system to “find” irregularities.
The AfD wants to bulldozer all wind turbines because the “windmills of shame” are woke or some shit.
In other news, gravity pulls everything downwards and water is wet.
[Why the argument that you have to stay on social networks to provide opposition is complete nonsense](https://leavex.eu/posts/why-stay-on-social-media-makes-no-sense/#the-top)
Anybody who is “Far” anything is probably more likely to spread fake news.
Oooooooooooowwwwwwwhhhheeeeeeeeelllllyyyyyyyy?!?!?!?!?!
Be aware of misinformation and learn to spot the dangers, we are going to be swamped with more and more. They spent the last few decades grinding the maga cult down with lack of education and destroyed their ability to critically think about anything, don’t let it happen to you .
Gee who could have thought
“Were sending 350m to the EU and we can spend them on the NHS!”
“we will build a wall and make Mexico pay for it!”
“Absolutely nobody is talking about leaving the single market”
“They’re eating the dogs!”
Who’d a thunk it
Not surprising. It has long been known that far-right sympathizers are among the least educated populations, therefore among the most easily influenced, with the least critical thinking, and a total ignorance of scientific rigor, or even downright anti-intellectualism for the most fascist among them.
The problem is that they just use this as evidence that their “truth” is being suppressed by being labeled as “fake” by the “elites.” They live in an alternate reality and I don’t know how we fix that moving forward.
In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet.
No way…
Water is wet
Not quite sure if they are actively spreading fake news, or they’re just so stupid they believe anything they read on twitter.
In other news, bears more likely to shit in the woods and Popes more likely to be Catholic.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen the far right spread real news tbh
Right has not much to offer to anyone except top 1%… and far-right has nothing to offer except hate. Without fake news neither will have any relevance.
Start punishing them at least in EU.
USA is a lost cause.
“so you claim this. Any proofs to back it? No, here is 10.000€ fine. Next week, report to so and so prison for a month long find out phase”
They had to do a study on that ?
Far right extremist did this way before trump made it mainstream. It’s not a new thing. They’ve been manipulating and twisting facts for as long as long as I’ve been into politics.
Amplifying misinformation is now part of radical right strategy, says Dutch study of tweets by MPs in 26 countries
Far-right populists are significantly more likely to spread fake news on social media than politicians from mainstream or far-left parties, [according to a study](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19401612241311886#supplementary-materials) which argues that amplifying misinformation is now part and parcel of radical right strategy.
“Radical right populists are using misinformation as a tool to destabilise democracies and gain political advantage,” said Petter Törnberg of the University of Amsterdam, a co-author of the study with Juliana Chueri of the Dutch capital’s Free University.
“The findings underscore the urgent need for policymakers, researchers, and the public to understand and address the intertwined dynamics of misinformation and radical right populism,” Törnberg added.
The research draws on every tweet posted between 2017 and 2022 by every member of parliament with a Twitter (now X) account in 26 countries: 17 EU members including Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, but also the UK, US and Australia.
It then compared that dataset – 32m tweets from 8,198 MPs – with international political science databases containing detailed information on the parties involved, such as their position on the left-right spectrum and their degree of populism.
Finally, the researchers scraped [factchecking and fake news-tracking services](https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/) to build a dataset of 646,058 URLs, each with an associated “factuality rating” based on the reliability of its source – and compared that data with the 18m URLs shared by the MPs.
By crunching all the different datasets together, the researchers were able to create what they described as an aggregate “factuality score” for each politician and each party, based on the links that MPs had shared on Twitter.
The data showed conclusively that far-right populism was “the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation”, they concluded, with MPs from centre-right, centre-left and far-left populist parties “not linked” to the practice.
Far-right populist parties such as Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the National Rally (RN) in France and the Dutch Freedom party (PVV) have made major gains across [Europe](https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news) in recent years and are in government in several countries.
The researchers noted that they would not be able to expand their dataset of MPs’ posts on X because the platform – now owned by the US billionaire Elon Musk, who has made no secret of his [support for far-right parties](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/25/elon-musk-makes-surprise-appearance-at-afd-event-in-eastern-germany) – no longer offers data access.
You don’t say.
I think it’s natural to have this kind of reaction, but I don’t mean to disparage studies being made into matters like this. It’s good that they’re being made.
No shit. This is precisely and exactly why the US oligarchy and their Republican enablers want to do away with GDPR and the DSA. Essential regulation to try combat their BS
Colour me shocked
Given the fact far-right are the ones intentionally causing the problems **most** of the time, the left doesn’t need to create fake news to point them out. So less fake news needed.
We know!
What a shocker. It’s not like it’s their entire strategy or anything.
No shit.
This is a well-known fact. Anyone trying to suggest polarisation is a both sides thing is trying to downplay the fact that the far-right only thrives with fake news and propaganda.
In other news, water wet.
It is always the “far-right”. If that doesn’t give you a clue about the leaning of these news and probably of these studies…