Two-thirds of U.S. adults say they’ve seen their own news sources report facts meant to favor one side
59% of Americans say made-up information that is intended to mislead causes a “great deal” of confusion about the 2020 presidential election.
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59% of Americans say made-up information that is intended to mislead causes a “great deal” of confusion about the 2020 presidential election.
With Election Day six months away, 52% of Americans are paying fairly close or very close attention to news about the presidential candidates.
A majority of voters said it is very or somewhat important to them to get messages from the presidential campaigns about important issues.
There’s broad concern among Democrats and Republicans about the influence that made-up news could have during the 2020 presidential election.
59% of Americans are following news about the 2020 candidates closely, but far fewer are following it very closely at this stage of the race.
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.
Pew Research Center President Michael Dimock examines the changes – some profound, some subtle – that the U.S. experienced during Barack Obama’s presidency.
Nearly nine-in-ten voters who followed the 2016 returns (88%) did so on TV, while 48% used online platforms; 21% used social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
About one-in-ten Americans (9%) did not learn about this year’s presidential election in a given week from any of 11 types of sources asked about in a January Pew Research Center survey. One striking trait of this group is their lack of faith in the impact of voting. Half of this group thinks that their […]
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