Immigration was a top focus of early Biden coverage, especially among outlets with right-leaning audiences
Immigration was one of the five topics most covered by 25 major news outlets in the first 60 days of the Biden administration.
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Immigration was one of the five topics most covered by 25 major news outlets in the first 60 days of the Biden administration.
We asked U.S. adults whether they consider each of 13 different news outlets to be a part of the mainstream media or not.
While Fox’s audience spans ideologies on the right, its new challengers attract mainly conservatives.
About half of U.S. adults say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” and this use is spread out across a number of different sites. Facebook stands out as a regular source of news for about a third of Americans.
Both Democrats and Republicans express far more distrust than trust of social media sites as sources for political and election news.
More than two-thirds of adults ages 65 or older said they were following news of the pandemic very closely.
The percentage who say journalists have exaggerated the risks of the outbreak has decreased notably in recent weeks.
In total, 20% of all Democrats get political news only from outlets with left-leaning audiences, while 18% of all Republicans do so only from outlets with right-leaning audiences.
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.
Americans who closely follow political news are more likely to have confidence that the public will accept election results. And that’s true across party boundaries.
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