Table 2.

Comparing discord-promoting, political, risk-increasing characteristics among tweets with and without misinformation

Tweet Characteristic	Tweets Containing Misinformation	Tweets Without Misinformation	χ2 Value	P value	Degrees of freedom
Promotes discord	45%	26%	40.38	< 0.001	1
Political	36%	24%	15.87	< 0.001	1
Risk Increasing	76%	39%	127.58	< 0.001	1

Table 2: Chi-squared testing found that content promoting social discord, political statements, and risk increasing messaging were all more common in tweets containing misinformation compared to tweets without misinformation. Percentages of tweets with or without misinformation that contain the tweet characteristic of interest are provided, as well as the χ² value, p-value, and degrees of freedom.