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    2. How the Facebook audience engaged with congressional posts

    When members of Congress posted in support of or opposition to political candidates, their Facebook audiences engaged more compared with posts that did not. At the same time, an increasingly large proportion of “reactions” to congressional posts – a set of emoji introduced by Facebook in February 2016 to capture user’s responses – featured the […]

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    Methodology

    Survey The analysis in this report is based on a nationally representative survey conducted from Feb. 22 to March 4, 2018, among a sample of 5,035 adults 18 years of age or older. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus 1.5 percentage points. This report was made possible by The […]

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    Darwin in America

    Almost 160 years after Charles Darwin publicized his groundbreaking theory on the development of life, Americans are still arguing about evolution. In spite of the fact that evolutionary theory is accepted by all but a small number of scientists, it continues to be rejected by many Americans.

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    Appendix A: Measuring capacity to classify statements as factual or opinion

    Prior to launching the survey, researchers conducted a series of preliminary tests to determine how best to ask Americans to classify news-related statements. The purpose of these tests was to analyze the effects of changes in the language used in the question instructions and response options, the number of response options and the attributions of […]

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    2. Southern European countries more fragmented in news sources, but for nearly all countries, top main source is public, not private

    The populist divides seen in attitudes about the news media are not as prominent when it comes to the sources Western Europeans turn to for news.[7.numoffset=”7″ Respondents are classified as holding populist views if they answered: “Most elected officials don’t care what people like me think” and “Ordinary people would do a better job solving the country’s […]

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    3. News outlets are less politically polarized than Western Europeans perceive

    Another way to examine attitudes across media outlets is to look at the relationship between the ideological profile of the audience of each outlet and where people think it falls on the left-right spectrum (o-to-6 scale). The majority of the 64 outlets included in this study (eight outlets in each of the eight Western European […]

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    News Media and Political Attitudes in Denmark

    Findings about news media views and habits in Denmark from a survey about media, political attitudes and populist views across eight Western European countries.