The Brookings Institution reviewed dozens of top political podcasts and how many lies they air.
Conservative hosts shared by far the most falsehoods, with Steve Bannon on top.
The top 10 podcasts sharing 60% of falsehoods were all right-leaning, the study found.
A major study reviewing the top US political podcasts found that conservative-leaning shows are vastly more likely to include misinformation — with Steve Bannon's War Room coming way out ahead.
Bannon called it a "badge of honor," according to The New York Times.
The study released by the Brookings Institute this week reviewed more than 36,000 episodes released on Apple Podcasts up to January 2022, by 79 leading podcasters across the political spectrum. They included Bannon, Dan Bongino, Seth Myers, Ben Shapiro, and Trevor Noah.
"Conservative podcasters were 11 times more likely than liberal podcasters to share claims fact-checked as false or unsubstantiated," the study said.
Major topics of misinformation were the 2020 election and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Fifty-six of the podcasters reviewed shared false or unsubstantiated claims at some point, the study found. But 10 of those were responsible for a full 60 per cent of the misleading material found. And of those, all were conservative-leaning, the study said.
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