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For many years, the conventional wisdom was that only highly biased, less educated media consumers would put partisanship over truth – in other words, they would believe news that confirmed their worldview, regardless of whether it was true. Then, studies done in the past few years showed that media consumers of all backgrounds put truth above partisanship, with a 2021 review paper claiming that the veracity of the news was more than four times more impactful than whether it confirmed a participant’s political beliefs.
But on the precipice of a national election where the stakes, along with the quantity and toxicity of misinformation, could not be higher, a new study led by Stanford psychology scholars upends that general understanding of news literacy.