Preregistered plans
Based on the preregistration, we aimed to gather data among high school students, university students, and in a comprehensive sample that is close to representative of Hungarian adults. Data collection among high school students was challenging as political fake news content was impossible to use (for legal reasons deriving from the present, illiberal political context), the COVID-19 pandemic made it difficult to gather data and reduce attrition, and teachers and students were not sufficiently incentivized to provide reliable data (we could not pay them for legal reasons). For the comprehensive sample aiming to draw 800–1200 respondents from the general population, we asked five polling companies and none of them could guarantee even a 40% attrition rate regardless of the incentive structure. We, therefore, opted out of data collection with these companies. In the university sample, our goal was to recruit at least 787 participants (with 