Table 1. Who chooses to visit untrustworthy news websites (behavioral data).
| Untrustworthy conservative sites | Untrustworthy liberal sites | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Binary |
% of info diet |
Binary |
% of info diet |
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| b | s.e. | p | 95% CI | b | s.e. | p | 95% CI | b | s.e. | p | 95% CI | b | s.e. | p | 95% CI | |
| Trump supporter | 0.25 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.18, 0.32 | 0.09 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.07, 0.11 | -0.17 | 0.03 | 0.00 | -0.22, -0.12 | -0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | -0.02, -0.01 |
| Political knowledge | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.05 | -0.00, 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.83 | -0.00, 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01, 0.03 | -0.00 | 0.00 | 0.23 | -0.00, 0.00 |
| Political interest | 0.08 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.02, 0.13 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01, 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.03, 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00, 0.01 |
| College | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.55 | -0.05, 0.08 | -0.02 | 0.01 | 0.05 | -0.03, -0.00 | -0.00 | 0.03 | 0.98 | -0.05, 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.82 | -0.00, 0.00 |
| Female | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.95 | -0.07, 0.07 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.06 | -0.00, 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.30 | -0.02, 0.08 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.90 | -0.00, 0.00 |
| Nonwhite | -0.05 | 0.04 | 0.22 | -0.14, 0.03 | -0.01 | 0.01 | 0.35 | -0.03, 0.01 | -0.11 | 0.03 | 0.00 | -0.18, -0.05 | -0.01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | -0.01, -0.00 |
| Age 30–44 | 0.03 | 0.08 | 0.69 | -0.12, 0.18 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.64 | -0.02, 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.34 | -0.05, 0.13 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.24 | -0.00, 0.01 |
| Age 45–59 | 0.09 | 0.07 | 0.20 | -0.05, 0.23 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.11 | -0.00, 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.16 | -0.03, 0.15 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.00, 0.01 |
| Age 60+ | 0.10 | 0.07 | 0.13 | -0.03, 0.23 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.02, 0.06 | 0.07 | 0.04 | 0.10 | -0.01, 0.16 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00, 0.01 |
| Constant | -0.11 | 0.12 | 0.33 | -0.34, 0.12 | -0.08 | 0.02 | 0.00 | -0.12, -0.04 | -0.06 | 0.07 | 0.41 | -0.19, 0.08 | -0.00 | 0.01 | 0.46 | -0.01, 0.01 |
| R2 | 0.14 | 0.17 | 0.10 | 0.03 | ||||||||||||
| N | 2167 | 2014 | 2167 | 2014 | ||||||||||||
OLS models with survey weights (p-values two-sided). Online traffic statistics cover the October 7–November 14, 2016 period among YouGov Pulse panel members. The denominator for information consumption includes total exposure to those sites as well as the number of pages visited on websites classified as focusing on hard news topics (excluding Amazon, Twitter, and YouTube). Respondents who did not visit any of these sites are excluded from the information diet models.