Against the backdrop of rising concern over misinformation and disinformation, a growing number of studies have considered the important role played by influential social media accounts when particular news stories attract attention online—with …
Does the news media exacerbate or reduce misinformation problems? Although some news media deliberately try to counter misinformation, it has been suggested that they might also inadvertently, and sometimes purposefully, amplify it. We conducted a …
How did the 2020 coronavirus pandemic affect people's online news consumption? To understand this, we present a comparative analysis of data on an estimated 905B desktop and mobile visits to news outlets, and 54B Facebook engagements, generated by …
In this report, we use survey data collected in April 2021 to document and understand how people in eight countries (Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Spain, the UK, and the US) accessed news and information about COVID-19 more than a …
The coronavirus pandemic is a communications crisis in addition to being a public health emergency. In this report, based on the results of ten online panel surveys of UK respondents fielded from mid-April to mid-August 2020, we find that: (i) most …
In this RISJ Factsheet we examine how people think about the coronavirus crisis and how different institutions in the UK have responded to it. This is the tenth in a series of ten factsheets based on an ongoing online panel survey of a representative …
In this RISJ Factsheet we examine how people perceive the threat of COVID-19 to their health, their finances, the economy, and the health of the population during the coronavirus pandemic in the UK. This is the ninth in a series of ten factsheets …
In this RISJ Factsheet we examine again the issue of news avoidance during the coronavirus pandemic in the UK. This is the eighth in a series of ten factsheets based on an ongoing online panel survey of a representative sample of the UK population, …
The coronavirus pandemic is a communications crisis in addition to being a public health emergency. In this report, which describes the results of six online panel surveys of UK respondents fielded from mid-April to late June 2020, we find that: (i) …
In this RISJ Factsheet we examine how people think about the coronavirus pandemic in the UK and how different institutions in the UK have responded to it. This is the seventh in a series of ten factsheets based on an ongoing online panel survey of a …