Perhaps heartening, when it comes to search “unreliable news exposure and engagement was generally rare and concentrated among a small number of participants,” accounting for only 2.1% of exposure and 3.6% of engagement in 2018 and 0.77% of exposure and 2.1% of engagement in 2020. According to the researchers, "these findings suggest that Google Search’s contribution to engagement with unreliable news is small relative to the contribution of other factors, like users’ direct navigation to their preferred news sources, or referrals from other websites or platforms." “Strong Republicans engage with significantly more news from unreliable sources than Strong Democrats” across both the survey waves, but strong partisans on the left and the right “engage with substantially more partisan and…