Fig. 1
From: Negative online news articles are shared more to social media

Point estimates and error bars (95% confidence intervals) for the effect of article negativity on log(+ 1) article shares, converted into percentage increases to enhance readability (SI9). Treatment effect values and n values are provided in SI1. The effect of article negativity on shares is positive and significant (p < 0.05) across every dataset when applying our core model (A), the same model with added news article topic controls (B), and a model predicting tweets plus retweets (C).