How Americans Navigated the News in 2020: A Tumultuous Year in Review
Americans inhabited different information environments, with wide gaps in how they viewed the election and COVID-19.
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Americans inhabited different information environments, with wide gaps in how they viewed the election and COVID-19.
In studying voters’ views of election fraud, we found these views varied by whether people got their news from the Trump campaign.
With Election Day six months away, 52% of Americans are paying fairly close or very close attention to news about the presidential candidates.
Partisans differ on whether social media companies’ decisions had a major impact on the election.
Biden supporters are more likely than Trump supporters to be confident their news sources will make the right call in announcing a winner. And partisans remain worlds apart on how well the U.S. has controlled the coronavirus outbreak.
U.S. adults in this group are less likely to get the facts right about COVID-19 and politics and more likely to hear some unproven claims.
There are notable differences between white and black Democrats in news consumption habits and assessments of recent political events and figures in the news.
Democrats are more likely than Republicans to have stopped discussing political and election news with someone: 50% vs. 41%, respectively.
Republicans are about four times as likely as Democrats to say voter fraud has been a major issue with mail-in ballots.
It wasn’t quite “Dewey Defeats Truman,” but after the Jan. 8 Granite State primary confounded many of the pollsters and pundits, one of the key story lines that emerged in coverage of the McCain and Clinton victories was the media’s proclivity to predict and pre-analyze the results.
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