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In this project we examine psychometric dimensions associated with political orientation and susceptibility to disinformation. The data was obtained from an academic study conducted by researchers at the California State University San Marcos, and contains 247 observations across two study conditions of 53 variables, including gender, political affiliation, time spent reading news headlines presented by researchers, among others.
We seek to illustrate findings on media bias presented previously by researchers in text-heavy scholarly publications. By doing so, we hope to isolate and quantify the effects of political orientation on media bias.

We provide an R bookdown presentation, including visualizations with ggplot2 and an interactive JavaScript component exploring outliers created using the D3.js library.

Project URL: https://katlass.github.io/media_disinformation/