Accuracy and social motivations shape judgements of (mis)information.

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"code availability the r code necessary to reproduce our results is available on the osf at https://osf io/75sqf ."

"Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"We are grateful for support from a Gates Cambridge Scholarship awarded to S.R. (grant #OPP1144), a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded to J.R. (#PF21\210010), a John Templeton Foundation Grant (#61378) awarded to J.J.V.B., a Russell Sage Foundation Grant awarded to S.R. and JV.B., and an Infodemic grant awarded to S.V.L. (UK Government, #SCH-00001-3391). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the paper."