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Articles tagged partisanship (12)

This election cycle showed that our evaluations of external reality are increasingly partisan. Can the media bridge the gap?
Partisanship, conspiratorial thinking, and IRL connections make for a potent mix — on both the left and the right.
“Compared to online audiences, partisan TV news consumers tend not to stray too far from their narrow sets of preferred news sources.”
“People give a pass to their like-minded friends who share misinformation.”
Plus: Sadness-based news sharing, why journalists see audiences as more conservative than they are, and journalists’ community-building on Instagram.
“Fox’s use of ‘hate’ really took off when Trump’s presidency began. Beginning in January 2017, the mean usage of ‘they hate’ on the network doubled.”
Our research found that Democrats and Republicans held genuine but different beliefs, not just about values or policies, but about basic facts.
Plus: A trove of Russian Facebook ads, “antecedents of bullshit,” and a week with Radio Sputnik.