Fig. 3. Ideological implications of claims by veracity.

(A) Most true statements that were widely shared online over the 6-month study favored the political left, while falsehoods favored the right. (B) Boxplots show variability in the proportion of statements favoring each side over the 12 waves. True statements (green bars) typically benefited the left/harmed the right (thin outline) more than they benefited the right/harmed the left (thick outline). False statements (red bars), in contrast, favored the left less than they favored the right. The proportion of statements of each type varied over time. D, Democrats; R, Republicans.