Something else to keep in mind is that almost all (time will tell) info labeled fake news by MSM has been shown to be true. This should lead to a conclusion: "consider all first statements by anyone in MSM to be lies." Demand they prove.

I recall one of the early, perhaps the first, of the Godfather movies. In it, retired dad cautioned the son that the one who brings you word of a possible negotiation with our enemies is the traitor. Skepticism.

Wow, that condescending trash article was pure narcissistic gaslighting dripping in arrogance and pretensioness! That about sums up academia these days.

"To find solutions to this misinformation crisis, our society needs a clear-eyed assessment of who and what drives the spread of malicious falsehoods and conspiracy theories

Before anyone (FB Fact checkers, social scientists, psychologists magazine editors, journalists...) can begin to make a determination on "who" or what "personality types" are most likely to be the ones who "spread fake news" they MUST begin with making truly OBJECTIVE analyses of what "shared content" is "fake news" and what is not.
In other words whose "experts" are we to accept as the one single unchallengeable authority on the particular content in question.

Would any free thinking objective person who reads the article in Scientific American Magazine think the writer was ever going to come up with something other than "conservative Trump followers" do it the most. LOL.

Of course the article is NOT a research paper. It is editorial - it is an essay; opinion writing.

Before anyone gets wild eyed and points to Scientific American Magazine and says; "but they are an authoritative source!" Are you going to "deny the science?!" Let it be known that much of the content of that publication marches in lockstep with politically correct narratives such as "crisis of climate change" and why human females are better than human males at everything really (Oh wait I might be thinking of something I read in "Psychology Today...actually both magazines are propagandists for the "Woke Narratives - and...well, you get the picture.

While sitting in waiting rooms I have picked up copies of Scientific American Magazine. After perusing several paragraphs here and there in any random issue of the magazine - especially the "main story" I disgustingly put it down and looked around for a magazine that might amuse me and more importantly NOT assault my grasp on common sense by dropping seeds of political correctness on nearly every page of the magazine - including the ads.