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Beliefs About Political News in the Run-up to an Election / Charles Angelucci, Michel Gutmann, Andrea Prat.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Angelucci, Charles.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w32802.
- NBER working paper series no. w32802
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2024.
- Summary:
- This paper develops a model of news discernment to explore the influence of elections on the formation of partisan-driven parallel information universes. Using survey data from news quizzes administered during and outside the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the model shows that partisan congruence's impact on news discernment is substantially amplified during election periods. Outside an election, when faced with a true and a fake news story and asked to select the most likely true story, an individual is 4% more likely to choose the true story if it favors their party; in the days prior to the election, this increases to 11%.
- Notes:
- August 2024.
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