Quotes and credibility: How news post approach shapes news bias and credibility perceptions across party lines

This study tested how storytelling approaches in a Facebook news post shape perceptions of news credibility. Online experiment participants (n = 921) were randomly assigned to view a post written in one of five styles: quoting only a Republican lawmaker, only a Democratic lawmaker, both partisan lawmakers, contextual information without quotes, or quoting a government official. Results found a partisan hostile media perception where Republicans rated all storytelling approaches as less credible than Democrats.