Abstract: The current study examined the effect of political ideology on susceptibility to fabricated political news stories. We presented participants (N = 1537) with fabricated events related to feminism (i.e. a riot at a gender rights march, official estimates of fabricated rape claims). The more negative participants’ attitudes towards feminism, the more likely they were to report a false memory for an event that negatively reflected on the feminist movement and the less likely they were to report a false memory for an event that positively reflected on the feminist movement. This effect of attitude was only evident for those who interpreted the event as we expected (i.e. those who agreed that the negative event was bad for feminism and vice versa). Furthermore, when we revealed the purpose of the study to participants, attitudes towards feminism predicted ability to identify the fake stories, with supporters of feminism less likely to identify the pro-feminist stories as fake and vice-versa. This study suggests that individuals with strong opinions on political issues are more susceptible to forming false memories for ideologically congruent news stories, and less capable of recognizing these stories as fake when prompted.