Moral leniency towards belief-consistent disinformation may help explain its spread on social media

• Laura Joyner ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: l.joyner@westminster.ac.uk

  Affiliation School of Social Sciences, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5035-6932

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• Tom Buchanan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Social Sciences, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8994-2939

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• Orkun Yetkili

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Social Sciences, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom

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