... Consistent with all of these psychological differences, research suggests that in the United States, at least, rumors, misinformation, and conspiracy theories spread more rapidly and extensively in the social networks of conservatives, as compared with liberals (Benkler, Faris, Roberts, & Zuckerman, 2017;Guess, Nagler, & Tucker, 2019;Guess, Nyhan, & Reifler, 2020;Jost, van der Linden, Panagopoulos, & Hardin, 2018). This was observed, for instance, in the early days of the SARS-2/COVID-19 pandemic: Right-wing news outlets such as Fox News and Breitbart were much more likely than mainstream news outlets to spread misinformation, including conspiracy theories about the virus, and citizens who consumed more right-wing news held more false beliefs about the pandemic (Motta, Stecula, & Farhart, 2020).Thus, although many perspectives in social science would suggest that motivated reasoning, biased information processing, and conspiratorial thinking should be equally prevalent among leftists and rightists (Ditto et al., 2019;Kahan, 2016;McClosky & Chong, 1985;Moore et al., 2014;Oliver & Wood, 2014;van Prooijen et al., 2015;Sunstein & Vermeule, 2009;Uscinski, Klofstad, & Atkinson, 2016), there are ample empirical reasons to question this assumption (see also Baron & Jost, 2019). The fact that "conspiracy theories are not just for conservatives" (Moore et al., 2014) does not mean that conspiracies are endorsed at the same scale or level of intensity by liberals and conservatives nor that conspiracy theories on the left and right are equally harmful, fallacious, or driven by paranoid ideation. ...