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ArticleNature2024

Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions.

Mohsen Mosleh, Qi Yang, Tauhid Zaman, Gordon Pennycook, David G Rand

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Article in Nature, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Divergent patterns of engagement with partisan and low-quality news across seven social media platforms.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  9. Republicans are flagged more often than Democrats for sharing misinformation on X's Community Notes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Mohsen MoslehOxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-7313-5035
Qi YangInitiative on the Digital Economy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Tauhid ZamanYale School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Gordon PennycookDepartment of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
David G RandSloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. drand@mit.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8975-2783

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In response to intense pressure, technology companies have enacted policies to combat misinformation

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CommunicationInformation DisseminationPoliticsSocial MediaBiasDatasets as TopicHumansInternationalityPrejudiceSurveys and QuestionnairesUnited States

Identifiers

PMID39358507
PMCPMC11485227

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