German parties shifted towards intuition-based rhetoric after the far right's parliamentary breakthrough

arXiv:2608.05075 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-05 · Read on arXiv

Peer Saleth, Segun T. Aroyehun, Fabio Carrella, Christoph M. Abels, Stephan Lewandowsky, David Garcia

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-08-05

Comments: 34 pages, 6 figures; includes 49 pages of Supplementary Information. Code available at https://github.com/peersal/German-EMI, data at https://osf.io/x3zpc/

Code: https://github.com/peersal/German-EMI

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: The spread of misinformation is widely perceived as a threat to democratic deliberation, yet how political elites' rhetorical commitments to truth shift alongside the rise of populist actors remains

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Abstract

Sources

• "Everything I Disagree With is #FakeNews": Correlating Political Polarization and Spread of Misinformation
• Epistemic orientation in parliamentary discourse is associated with deliberative democracy
• BERTopic: Neural topic modeling with a class-based TF-IDF procedure

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