5 facts about Fox News
While U.S. Democrats turn to a variety of outlets for political news, no source comes close to matching the appeal of Fox News for Republicans.
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While U.S. Democrats turn to a variety of outlets for political news, no source comes close to matching the appeal of Fox News for Republicans.
About eight-in-ten Americans (79%) say news organizations tend to favor one side when presenting the news on political and social issues.
Despite the spread of the conspiracy theories, about three-quarters of U.S. adults say they have heard or read nothing at all about them.
Roughly half of Americans or more were able to correctly identify whether three of the six sources asked about do their own reporting.
We thought it would be valuable to combine our study of news coverage itself with data on people’s views about, and exposure to, that coverage.
Americans’ confidence in checking COVID-19 information aligns closely with their confidence in checking the accuracy of news stories broadly.
59% of Americans think news organizations do not understand people like them, while a minority – 37% – say they do feel understood.
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Just one-in-ten Americans say social media sites have a mostly positive effect on the way things are going in the U.S. today.
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