Mauk, M., & Grömping, M. (2023). Online Disinformation Predicts Inaccurate Beliefs About Election Fairness Among Both Winners and Losers. Comparative Political Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140231193008
Electoral disinformation is feared to variously undermine democratic trust by inflaming incorrect negative beliefs about the fairness of elections, or to shore up dictators by creating falsely positive ones. Recent studies of political misperceptions, however, suggest that disinformation has at best minimal effects on beliefs. In this article, the authors investigate the drivers of public perceptions and misperceptions of election fairness.