{"id":137330,"date":"2025-02-12T07:20:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T05:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/far-right-populists-much-more-likely-than-the-left-to-spread-fake-news-study\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T07:20:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T05:20:03","slug":"far-right-populists-much-more-likely-than-the-left-to-spread-fake-news-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/far-right-populists-much-more-likely-than-the-left-to-spread-fake-news-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news \u2013 study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137330\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>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 which argues that amplifying misinformation is now part and parcel of radical right strategy. \u201cRadical right populists are using misinformation as a tool to destabilise democracies and gain political advantage,\u201d said Petter T\u00f6rnberg of the University of Amsterdam, a co-author of the study with Juliana Chueri of the Dutch capital\u2019s Free University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe findings underscore the urgent need for policymakers, researchers, and the public to understand and address the intertwined dynamics of misinformation and radical right populism,\u201d T\u00f6rnberg 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.<\/p>\n<p>It then compared that dataset \u2013 32m tweets from 8,198 MPs \u2013 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 to build a dataset of 646,058 URLs, each with an associated \u201cfactuality rating\u201d based on the reliability of its source \u2013 and compared that data with the 18m URLs shared by the MPs.<\/p>\n<p>By crunching all the different datasets together, the researchers were able to create what they described as an aggregate \u201cfactuality score\u201d 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 \u201cthe strongest determinant for the propensity to spread of misinformation\u201d, they concluded, with MPs from centre-right, centre-left and far-left populist parties \u201cnot linked\u201d to the practice.<\/p>\n<p>Far-right populist parties such as Germany\u2019s Alternative f\u00fcr Deutschland (AfD), the National Rally (RN) in France and the Dutch Freedom party (PVV) have made major gains across Europe 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\u2019 posts on X because the platform \u2013 now owned by the US billionaire Elon Musk, who has made no secret of his support for far-right parties \u2013 no longer offers data access.<\/p>\n<p>Recent research suggests most people do not consume or share misinformation \u2013 defined as the unintentional and the deliberate sharing of false information \u2013 which instead was heavily concentrated in particular electoral groups, the study said.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/11\/far-right-mps-fake-news-misinformation-left-study\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/11\/far-right-mps-fake-news-misinformation-left-study\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/far-right-populists-much-more-likely-than-the-left-to-spread-fake-news-study-2\/\">Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news \u2013 study<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,398,17890],"class_list":["post-137330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-fake-news","tag-far-right-populists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}