News Interest

The public is more likely to have heard “a lot” about ongoing confrontations between police and protesters than several other stories.

Americans are following the president's statements on the COVID-19 pandemic less closely than a few months ago.

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.

Among black Americans, 72% say coverage has been good or excellent and 85% say Trump’s message has been completely or mostly wrong.

More Americans hold positive than negative views of the news media’s COVID-19 coverage, but Republicans and Democrats remain starkly divided.

61% give equal attention to national and local coronavirus news.

More than two-thirds of adults ages 65 or older said they were following news of the pandemic very closely.

More than half of these social media news consumers say they have encountered made-up news about COVID-19.

About half say they have seen at least some made-up news about the virus; 29% think it was created in a lab.

66% of Americans feel worn out by the amount of news there is these days – a feeling that has persisted for several years now.