Table 9.

Analysis of necessity results

Condition variables	POL		~ POL
	Consistency	Coverage	Consistency	Coverage
DIG	0.743	0.763	0.571	0.571
~ DIG	0.581	0.582	0.763	0.743
DIP	0.751	0.774	0.555	0.557
~ DIP	0.571	0.569	0.775	0.751
DIF	0.711	0.726	0.619	0.615
~ DIF	0.623	0.627	0.724	0.709
HAT	0.775	0.803	0.516	0.520
~ HAT	0.537	0.533	0.804	0.776
CIE	0.657	0.723	0.568	0.609
~ CIE	0.645	0.605	0.741	0.678
GSM	0.712	0.728	0.609	0.606
~ GSM	0.615	0.618	0.727	0.711

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