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    Appendix B: Coverage across news platforms

    Of the more than 3,000 stories included in this study, 63% are from digital websites, 27% from television and 10% from radio. It is important to note that some differences in coverage could be tied to the platform of the content. Two variables that seemed they could have some element of format at play were […]

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    Methodology

    Media coverage of President Donald Trump and his administration is based on data collected from Jan. 21 to April 30, 2017. This time frame begins the day following the inauguration of Trump and includes all weekdays through his 100th day in office. The study is not an analysis of media bias or evaluating whether the […]

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    3. Concerns about the future of people’s well-being

    About half of the people responding in this study were in substantial agreement that the positives of digital life will continue to outweigh the negatives. However, as in all great technological revolutions, digital life has and will continue to have a dark side. Roughly a third of respondents predicted that harms to well-being will outweigh […]

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    Theme 1: The information environment will not improve. The problem is human nature

    Misinformation and “fake news” have been around for as long as people have communicated. But today’s instant, low-budget, far-reaching communications capabilities have the potential to make the problem orders of magnitude more dangerous than in the past. Mankind has always lied, and always will; which is why the winners of wars get to write the […]

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    News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2017

    Today, 67% of U.S. adults get at least some news on social media. Twitter, YouTube and Snapchat serve as sources of news for more of their users, though Facebook still leads as a source of news for Americans.

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    Methodology

    To analyze the news that members of Congress share with their Facebook followers, researchers obtained a complete set of posts created by members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and posted on their official pages between Jan. 2, 2015, and July 20, 2017. Researchers used the Facebook Graph API to download the posts. […]

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    Brian Kennedy

    Brian Kennedy is a senior researcher at the Pew Research Center, where he studies public views on science issues and the implications of science for society. He is an expert on public opinion on climate, energy and environmental issues and public trust in science. He has authored numerous publications on these two topics in his […]