About Seven-in-Ten U.S. Adults Say They Need to Take Breaks From COVID-19 News
61% give equal attention to national and local coronavirus news.
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61% give equal attention to national and local coronavirus news.
Many U.S. news organizations are covering the coronavirus pandemic while themselves facing financial pressure from the outbreak.
More than half of these social media news consumers say they have encountered made-up news about COVID-19.
31% of U.S. adults say they discuss the outbreak with other people most of the time; another 13% say they talk about it almost all of the time.
There are notable differences between white and black Democrats in news consumption habits and assessments of recent political events and figures in the news.
Responses to cable news coverage and the pandemic vary notably among Americans who identify Fox News, MSNBC or CNN as their main source of political news.
A new analysis of open-ended responses to a survey of U.S. adults looks at the specific storylines or claims about COVID-19 that Americans said they were exposed to.
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About half say they have seen at least some made-up news about the virus; 29% think it was created in a lab.
Both Democrats and Republicans express far more distrust than trust of social media sites as sources for political and election news.
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