A third of Americans have fallen for Russian disinformation as well as other false online claims about health, elections and international conflict.

Republicans were, though, more likely to believe Russian disinformation claims than their Democratic counterparts, with 57.6% falling for at least one Russian disinformation claim, compared with just 17.9% of Democrats and 29.5% of people who didn’t identify with one particular party.

    • perestroika@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      It’s widely known. Attained education correlates with preference for left-wing policies, and in the US case, with opposition to Trump.

      a sample from Newsweek’s “Trump approval tracker”

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Generally, studies have shown that the more educated a person gets the more they lean left. People at the PhD level tend to be far more liberal than people with only a high school degree.