Fig. 4. Geographical distribution of associations showing beneficial and detrimental outcomes.
a, Geographical distribution of reported associations for the variables trust, knowledge, participation, exposure and expression. Pie charts show the composition of directions for each country studied. b, Geographic representation of reported associations for the variables hate, polarization, populism, homophily and misinformation. c, Data and variables in a, in absolute numbers of reported associations and sorted along the Liberal Democracy Index18. d, Data and variables in b, in absolute numbers of reported associations and sorted along the Liberal Democracy Index.