reportMar 5, 2021 A Year of U.S. Public Opinion on the Coronavirus Pandemic The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
reportFeb 22, 2021 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.
reportFeb 18, 2021 Experts Say the โNew Normalโ in 2025 Will Be Far More Tech-Driven, Presenting More Big Challenges A plurality of experts think sweeping societal change will make life worse for most people. Still, a portion believe things will be better in a โtele-everythingโ world.
short readJan 25, 2021 Though not especially productive in passing bills, the 116th Congress set new marks for social media use Voting members of the 116th Congress collectively produced more than 2.2 million tweets and Facebook posts in 2019 and 2020.
short readJan 11, 2021 Republicans who relied on Trump for news more concerned than other Republicans about election fraud In studying voters’ views of election fraud, we found these views varied by whether people got their news from the Trump campaign.
short readDec 22, 2020 As CDC warned against holiday travel, 57% of Americans say they changed Thanksgiving plans due to COVID-19 A third of U.S. adults say they changed their Thanksgiving plans โa great deal,โ while roughly a quarter changed their plans โsome.โ
short readDec 8, 2020 Many Americans are unsure whether sources of news do their own reporting Roughly half of Americans or more were able to correctly identify whether three of the six sources asked about do their own reporting.
short readNov 16, 2020 5 facts about the QAnon conspiracy theories Here are five facts about how much Americans have heard about the QAnon conspiracy theories and their views about them.
short readNov 2, 2020 Two-thirds of U.S. adults say theyโve seen their own news sources report facts meant to favor one side 59% of Americans say made-up information that is intended to mislead causes a โgreat dealโ of confusion about the 2020 presidential election.
short readOct 28, 2020 Americans blame unfair news coverage on media outlets, not the journalists who work for them About eight-in-ten Americans (79%) say news organizations tend to favor one side when presenting the news on political and social issues.