Table 5.

Analysis of necessity results for high and low levels of polarization

Condition variables	POL		~ POL
	Consistency	Coverage	Consistency	Coverage
DIG	0.720	0.778	0.549	0.577
~ DIG	0.609	0.581	0.789	0.733
DIP	0.745	0.787	0.549	0.564
~ DIP	0.587	0.572	0.792	0.752
DIF	0.702	0.725	0.614	0.617
~ DIF	0.629	0.626	0.726	0.703
HAT	0.804	0.818	0.530	0.525
~ HAT	0.533	0.538	0.816	0.802
CIE	0.680	0.714	0.590	0.602
~ CIE	0.621	0.608	0.720	0.687
GSM	0.702	0.726	0.597	0.601
~ GSM	0.614	0.610	0.728	0.704

DIG Government’s dissemination of disinformation (domestic), DIP Political parties’ dissemination of disinformation (domestic), DIF Disinformation by foreign governments, HAT Hate speech by political parties, GSM Monitoring of social media by the government, CIE Efforts towards censorship of internet, POL Polarization of society, ~ denotes negation